Queer Jewish Languages
Channel: Jewish Language Project
Date: 12/12/2022

This is a recording from the 3rd annual JQT Heritage Month's QUEER JEWISH LANGUAGES in partnership with The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project on Sunday, May 15, 2022 featuring:

✨Eyal Rivlin - Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-creator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
✨Nesi Altaras - an editor of Turkish Avlaremoz and Ladino revivificationist in Montreal
✨Faith Jones - a librarian, translator, and researcher of Yiddish culture in Vancouver
✨Grace Elizabeth Dy and Ellen Perleberg - co-principal investigators of “Yallah Y’all: The Development and Acceptance of Queer Jewish Language in Seattle”
✨Yosef Jay Nemanpour - a Persian-Iranian graduate intern at JQ International in Los Angeles

Moderated by Carmel Tanaka - Founder & Executive Director of JQT Vancouver

Participants enjoyed 40-min panel discussion on how each of our guests are ‘queering’ their respective Jewish languages, followed by a 20-min mini lesson with a guest of their choosing to learn a few queer Jewish terms and/or grammar!

WHO ARE WE?

✨ The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project promotes research on, awareness about, and engagement surrounding the many languages spoken and written by Jews throughout history and around the world. www.jewishlanguages.org/jewish-language-project

✨ JQT Vancouver is a volunteer run Jewish Queer and Trans non-profit dedicated to ‘queering’ Jewish spaces and ‘Jew-ifying’ queer spaces. www.jqtvancouver.ca

📍 JQT’s work takes place in Vancouver, BC on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples