The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Dovid Braun and Itzik Gottesman discuss the upcoming Yiddish New York festival of Yiddish languge and culture. Yiddish linguist Braun will be presenting an advanced workshop on Yiddish dialects in Yiddish during Yiddish New York. Gottesman, a PhD and internationally recognized scholar of Yiddish language and culture, is a producer of Yiddish New York. Info: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com Libe Grit...

Libe Gritz talks about the upcoming concert by the Boston Workmen’s Circle’s A Besere Velt chorus at Yiddish New York. The concert titled “Sing Out, Fight Back! – A Besere Velt Chorus!” takes place SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2:45 – 4:00pm At the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Libe (also known as Linda) Gritz is a leading member, often a solo...

Henry Carrey talks about the upcoming concert he’s performing in, YIDDISH RADIO LIVES! A Musical Tribute to Ben Gailing at 120 ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hankus-netskys-hebrew-national-salvage-tickets-51815656022 ); his mother Leyke Post, a Yiddish actress, singer, and radio personality; meeting Ben Gailing; his mother’s reunion with Gailing at KlezKamp 1998; how he learned Yiddish...

Happy Thanksgiving! אַ פֿריילעכן דאַנק-טאָג! Yankl-Perets Blum discusses various aspects of his involvement with Yiddish. Blum is a Yiddish teacher, linguist, polyglot, board member of Yugntruf (yugntruf.org), developer of YiddishPop.com, developer of “Yiddish Typer” (Chrome extension). Yiddish Typer web page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yiddish-typer/higlebidpnhccabnhank...

******מיר טרויערן נאָך די קדושים פֿון דער פּיטסבורגער שחיטה Sholem Beinfeld : Words of Condolence on Pittsburgh Massacre Ber Kotlerman : Interview on the writer Der Nister, the subject of his forthcoming lectures in New York and Los Angeles Cantor Moyshe Taube : Interview about the Pittsburgh massacre with the famed cantor and Holocaust survivor living in Squirrel Hill Music: Cantor Sholom Katz: E...

Sholem Berger discusses and reads from his latest book of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, “Vi lebt zikh dortn? Lider un proze-bashraybungen”, available here: http://bit.ly/bergerpoetry Special guest co-hosts Sholem Beinfeld and Leah Shporer Leavitt are live in studio for special cultural presentations. Yiddish songs performed by the late cantor and folksinger Abraham Brun from his album on...

Vivi Lachs discusses her book Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 (Wayne State University Press) and music she has created based on historic Yiddish songs from Whitechapel. Lachs will be giving a talk on Sunday Oct 21 2018 at the Boston Workmen’s Circle. For information on Lachs’s book Whitechapel Noise : https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/b...

Kolye Borodulin discusses his recent return to Birobidzhan, the town famed as the center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia where he was born and raised. Kolye also discusses the upcoming Yiddish language classes offered by the Workmen’s Circle, available both in-person and online. For further info: https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/ The film Who Will Write Our History wi...

Sabina Brukner discusses Yiddish Fiddler, that is, the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof , now playing at the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City, where Sabina serves officially as Literary Manager and unofficially as Yiddish language coach. For info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Greetings from our good friends and frequent contributors Sholem Beinfeld, Dovid Braun...

Previously aired Oct 10, 2016 We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! ‏ מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! For Succos and Simchas Torah: Miriam Libenson z"l (from the ‘90’s) and Myer Loketch צו לאַנגע יאָר (from 2006) Air Date: October 10, 2016 AND September 19, 2018

Previously aired Sep 27, 2017. We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! ‏ מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! We thank those who have pledged or made financial contributions to the Yiddish Voice during the past year. We recall the names of Yiddish Voice friends, supporters, and participants who died during the past year. Rabbi Itzchak Kin : questions and answ...

Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt joins regular host Meyer (Mark David) as co-host for a lively “Erev Rosh Hashona” program live from WUNR studios in downtown Boston, joined by phone by regular contributors Dovid Braun and Sholem Beinfeld as well as special guest Rav Avrohom Marmorstein . Leye gave a report on the 2018 Yugntruf Yidish-Vokh retreat she recently attended and provided info o...

Interviews with two cast members of the smash-hit Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof , known as Fidler afn Dakh in Yiddish, which has just had its run at the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene in New York extended by two months. Info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Michael Yashinsky played the roles of Mordkhe the innkeeper as well as Nokhem the beggar from the beginning of the curren...

Interview with Anna Shternshis , Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at University of Toronto. The interview is presented in memory of 12 August 1952, when thirteen Jews were executed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, five of them Yiddish writers Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, Leib Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson. Dr. Shternshis was executive producer of the recently released CD Yiddish...

Kan Yiddish radio hosts Avremi Zaks and Mikhoel Felsenbaum and דאָס ייִדישע קול host Mark David interviewed each other about their Yiddish radio shows. Kan Yiddish , sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel ( https://www.yiddish-rashutleumit.co.il/ ), is broadcast in Israel on public radio at frequencies 104.9 FM and 105.3 FM every Friday at 4 p.m. and on 101.5 FM at midni...

Interview with Debra Caplan discussing her book Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld , a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary , and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Music: Excerpts from David Tamkin’s opera The...

Interview with Zalmen Mlotek discussing the forthcoming production Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish ( Fidler afn Dakh ) by the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene . Previews begin July 4, 2018. Info: http://nytf.org Twitter: @folksbiene Interview with Avrom Nowerstern discussing the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears and the author Sholem Aleichem generally (abbreviated and repeated from...

Interview with writer Miriam Hoffman discussing her recently published memoir A Breed Apart: Reflections of a Young Refugee which describes her fascinating life, from childhood in Sibera and Germany through adulthood in New York, raising a family in Yiddishist society in New York and finding success as a columnist and feature writer for the Yiddish “Forward” Newspaper (“Forverts&...

Dr. David E. Fishman , author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017). Fishman’s book tells the incredible story of the “Paper Brigade” of the Vilna Ghetto, who rescued thousands of books, manuscripts, documents, and objects of art from the murderous Germans seeking to both loot and destroy the Jews’ cul...

Historian Sam Kassow discusses Emanuel Ringelblum and the “Oyneg Shabbos Archive”, the subject of his book “Who Will Write Our History” and the new film based on his book. The film, by director/producer Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg, has recently been shown in preview form in Los Angeles and Warsaw and is expected to be released sometime in 2018. F...

Interview with Gitu Cycowics (nee Friedman) , an Israeli, a resident of Jerusalem, also an Auschwitz survivor Israel Report by Adam Gruzman, brought to you by the Yiddish Forward , on the web at yiddish.forward.com From Israel’s Kan national broadcast authority’s “Kan Yiddish” department: Shaye Perelzon’s Yiddish radio presentation for Yom Haatsmaut Intro instrumental...

Interview with Marek Edelman , who was the last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to have lived, from 1996 is re-aired. Sholem Beinfeld , a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis, discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising generally as well as certain historic...

Rav Izchak Kin: LeKoved Pesach Izchak Kin , our esteemed guest rabbi for Pesach this year, teaches the class “Ein Yaakov”, in Yiddish , a half hour before Mincha nearly every week day of the year at the venerable Shaarei Tefila Synagogue in Los Angeles. We are thankful to have him on our show. He not only answers our Shayles (questions) about Pesach, but sang us one of over 400 songs h...

Happy Passover! אַ כּשרן און פֿרײלעכן פּסח! Air Date: Mar 21 2018

Happy Passover! אַ כּשרן און פֿרײלעכן פּסח! Air Date: Mar 14 2018