THE SALON

You will be entertained by a mix of pre-recorded and LIVE salon acts bringing you a tantalizing curation of original Yiddish poetry, story, and song as well as plenty of translations from Yiddish into English..

Your fabulous MCs for this night are rosza daniel lang/levitsky & Sadie "Zeydi" Gold-Shapiro!

We will announce the Yiddish poetry readers and klezmer music performers in the coming days!

Zoom auto-captions with caption-correction volunteers will be available for this event. Please be in touch with any other access needs and we will do our best to accommodate.

ABOUT ייִד־ליט־מיט YID-LIT-WITH…

YidLitWith... is a Yiddish Solidarity Salon series that brings together rad Yiddish writers, readers, singers, and performers lending their talents to raise and redistribute funds towards Indigenous, Black, and POC-led grassroots frontline movements. We celebrate our Yiddish cultural heritage and its long history of activism from the days when our socialist and radical ancestors led working-class struggles and showed up in solidarity with social justice movements.

Presented by: YiddishPod, Rad Yiddish, Yiddishistn Mit Palestine, the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group of UJPO-Toronto, and JVP Havurah Network. This event is organized by a collective who lives across Turtle Island on Coast Salish, Duwamish land/seattle, Pocomtuc land/western massachusetts, Tkaronto/toronto, Tio'tia:ke/montreal, and Munsee Lenape & Wappinger land.

STOP LINE 3

This salon, we are supporting the Indigenous-led movement to StopLine3! Even though deadly tar sands are already flowing through Endbridge’s Line 3, the movement to resist this pipeline still needs our solidarity! So often, funding and support stops after a movement seems to have reached its peak, but there is still important organizing happening. From funds to sustain winter camps and address legal fees (due to colonial governments criminalizing Indigenous people exercising sovereignty), every dollar counts so please give generously! Your donations will go directly to two Indigenous-led groups who have been central to the resistance against Line 3: One of these groups is Camp Migizi - an Indigenous two spirit led collective of mostly queer anarchists who stand for Indigenous rights and BIPOC solidarity!

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

• We respect people’s marginalized identities: No racism, homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, femmephobia, whorephobia, sexism, ableism, sanism, classism, ageism, sizeism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, faith-bashing or other oppressive attitudes or behaviours.
• We don’t assume anyone’s race, dis/abiity, gender, or pronouns. If you don’t know someone’s pronouns, ask.
• If someone points out something we said or did was harmful, we avoid getting defensive, correct the harm when possible, and aim to do better next time.
• We keep ourselves muted when it’s not our time to speak.

ABOUT YIDDISH POD

YiddishPod is a political arts-practice group that explores the interplay between our members’ Yiddish-language arts and cultural work, and lefty Jewish communal organizing and education, rooted in radical diasporism. The ייִד־ליט־מיט YidLitWith… Solidarity Salon Series is our first public-facing offering!

ABOUT RAD YIDDISH

Rad Yiddish is an online meet-up of lefties who love to learn Yiddish together in a supportive environment. We read and discuss (and sometimes sing!) Yiddish cultural artifacts that have radical/leftist Yiddish content in original Yiddish together with English translation. https://facebook.com/RadYiddish

ABOUT YIDDISHISTN MIT PALESTINE

Yiddishistn Mit Palestine is a collective of Yiddishists and Yiddish-adjacent cultural workers and activists finding ways to show up in solidarity with Palestine in Yiddishland--during our festival times, in our learning spaces, and whenever we come together Yiddishly with our comrades.

ABOUT UJPO-TORONTO ISWG

The Indigenous Solidarity Working Group of the United Jewish People’s Order - Toronto Chapter builds ongoing relationships with Indigenous communities; responds to requests for solidarity support from Indigenous communities; and commits to personal growth and organizational education. We understand that, as Jewish settlers, we are guests here in what is now known as Canada. As guests, we must respect and honour the protocols of the Indigenous Peoples of this land. https://https://facebook.com/WinchevskyCtr

ABOUT JVP HAVURAH NETWORK

We are an emergent network that gathers, supports and resources diasporist, anti-zionist and non-zionist Jews and Jewish spiritual communities. We yearn for a vibrant Jewish life beyond nationalism that condemns and challenges white supremacy within and outside Jewish communities. The JVP Havurah Network supports collaboration and leadership development in service of the movement for Palestinian freedom and all liberatory movements. https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/havurah-network