Arndt Beck (arnt bek | Arndt Beck | אַרנט†בעק), born in West Germany, works as a freelance artist in disciplines as diverse as photography, drawing, and text. As the heir to the estate of HELMUT J. PSOTTA, Beck also sees themself as a mediator of Psotta’s work. Beck has been intensively engaged with the Yiddish language for several years and initiated the exhibitions and event series of YIDDISH BERLIN since 2019. As of 2025, Beck is part of a transnational research group on the work of Yiddish poet Avrom Nokhem Stencl, who spent crucial years of his life (1921–1936) in Berlin. Beck recently iniciated MILI, an ongoing collective artistic exploration in honor to the anarcha-feminist activist Milly Witkop and started exploring the archive of Yiddish writer Shmuel Lewin. Latest publications: Illustrations to Katerina Kuznetsova, Glozperl, Lider, 2025.

Eliana Pliskin Jacobs is a Yiddish singer, circus performer, and visual/performance artist. Her interdisciplinary work blends circus, music, and visual art, exploring memory, place, and migration. She holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from HEAD–Geneva and Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
She began circus training at 12 and has worked since 2012 as an aerialist across Canada and Europe. A trained Baroque and Yiddish singer, she has performed with klezmer ensembles and as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Dresden Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 2023, she co-founded the klezmer-circus ensemble Tsirk Dobranotch.
Since 2018, she has presented visual and performance work across Europe, including exhibitions and residencies at Haihatus (Joutsa), Kemijärvi, and Pilotenkueche (Leipzig), as well as the project HABITER (2021) and collaborations with Kunstkollektiv Marinus. She is currently a guest researcher at Berlin Humboldt University Berlin’s Institute for European Ethnology.

Laila Abd Elrazaq is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, sound, text, and digital media. Her practice explores the intersections of personal narrative, gender identity, and the socio-political frameworks that shape and define “Arab identity”. Drawing from both personal and collective memory, she investigates what it means to exist between languages, histories, and imposed roles.
She holds a BA (Hons) and an MFA from the University of Haifa, as well as a Fine Arts Teaching Certificate from Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College. She is the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including the AICF Scholarship, the late Prof. Uri Katzenstein Award for Excellence in a Final BA Project, the Walid Abu Shakra Young Artist Prize, and the WAVA Artist of the Mediterranean Award. She currently lectures at the University of Haifa, and her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally.

Liliana Farber is an Uruguayan-born, New York-based, visual artist. Through research-based processes and using digital strategies, Farber creates still and moving images, objects, installations, and web-based works. These investigate notions of land imaginaries, unmappable spaces, utopias, and techno-colonialism.
Farber’s work has been exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon; The Center for Books Art, New York; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; Arebyte Gallery, London; and Panke Gallery, Berlin; among others venues.
Farber is a recipient of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, UK; Artis grant, USA; and Asylum Arts grant, USA. She has been an artist-in-residence at LMCC, NYC, Wassaic Projects, NY, and LESP, NYC. Her work is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum collection in London and numerous private collections worldwide. She has been featured in On Curating, Switzerland and MIT’s Leonardo Journal, USA. Farber received her MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and her BA from ORT University, Uruguay.

Artist Masha Shprayzer explores identity and memory through a feminist lens, focusing on how women transmit experience across generations through everyday rituals. Drawing on Yiddish culture as a fragile yet persistent space of memory, she also addresses mental health within personal and collective histories. Her practice spans installation, textiles, and performance.
In 2024–2025, she presented work in Israel, including Soul at the Loving Art Making Art Festival (Ta Tarbut / Bavua residency, Tel Aviv), The Great Perhaps at Herzl House (Tel Aviv), and Kingdom of Jerusalem at Harmony Cultural Center (Jerusalem). In 2024, she held the solo exhibition Vintertsayt at KakdelArt Container Gallery, Tel Aviv–Yafo.
Internationally, she participated in Hidden (Sisters Garden residency, Umbria, 2025) and the Memory Archive. Collected Stories residency at the Ria Keburia Foundation, Tbilisi (2024). Shprayzer is a graduate of the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow). Born in Rostov-on-Don, she is based in Tel Aviv.