Yankl-Peretz began learning Yiddish in college, and since then the language has become the axis of his personal, social, and professional life.
He’s attended almost every Yidish-Vokh since 2004, and has served on the executive board of Yugntruf since 2006. He is grateful to the organization for helping connect him with innumerable Yiddish-speaking friends and collegues over the years.
He works as a Yiddish teacher, editor, and translator. He’s especially proud of his work helping to build the YiddishPOP website for beginning students of the language, as well as the hundreds of students he’s helped acquire Yiddish over the years through private tutoring, as well as in programs at Yugntruf, YIVO, the Yiddish Farm, Worker’s Circle, and other organizations.
He currently lives in Jerusalem and speaks in Yiddish with his wife Mira-Rivka and their two children.
You can see a speech Yankl-Peretz delivered for the 50th year anniversary of Yugntruf (in Yiddish with subtitles in Yiddish/English), as well as a presentation he gave about Yiddish at a polyglot conference (in English).
