The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

News report from Israel by Avrohom Zaks, thanks to Kol Yisrael, Jerusalem, Yiddish Radio Service. Elye Davis: Yugntruf’s Yidish-Vokh - check out http://yugntruf.org/yvokh/ Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul (Hershl) Glasser, the editors of the just-published Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. Aired part 1 last week (7/13/16) and part 2 this week (7/20/16). Check out dictionary web pag...

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul (Hershl) Glasser, the editors of the just-published Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. Airing part 1 tonight (7/13/16) and part 2 next week (7/20/16). Interviewers: Iosif Lakhman and Dovid Braun. Check out dictionary web page at League for Yiddish: http://store.leagueforyiddish.org/verterbukh.html

Miryam-Khaye Seigel’s interview with the Yiddish Voice, talking about her career in Yiddish and her upcoming performances, including the a Purim Shpiel in Boston, and her forthcoming CD Toyznt Tamen . Original interview air date: Feb. 20, 2013

Interview with Rukhl Schaechter , by Yosef Lakhman and Meyer Dovid, on Rukhl’s becoming the new Editor of the Forverts (Yiddish Forward), not only its first female editor but also its first American-born. Air date: May 25, 2016 Original interview air date: May 18, 2016

Interview with Rukhl Schaechter , by Yosef Lakhman and Meyer Dovid, on Rukhl’s becoming the new Editor of the Forverts (Yiddish Forward), not only its first female editor but also its first American-born. Air date: May 18, 2016

Yom Haatsmaut: Interview with the Kol Israel Radio’s Yiddish program presenter Avremi Zaks Yom Haatsmaut: Hasia Segal (replay from 2010): On the Film “The Dewey Stone Connection: From Exodus to Independence”, produced by the late Brockton, MA-native Walter M. Newman.

Interview with Boris Sandler, by Yosef Lakhman and Meyer Dovid, on Boris’s 2nd-to-last day as Forverts (Yiddish Forward) editor. (This is an expanded version of the interview we aired last week.) For Yom HaShoah: Interview with the former Viekhne Sidranski from Grodne. (This is a replay of an interview conducted and originally aired in May 2014.)

A bit more of Pesach : music, greetings, and announcements. And then …. For Yom Hashoah : excerpts from Dovid Braun’s interview of Milke Baran , a Holocaust survivor from Oshmine (Oshmyany, near Vilna), from the Sholem Aleichem Shule 21 (Bronx)’s annual Yom Hashoah Hazkore . Interview of Boris Sandler , as Editor of the Yiddish Forward ( Forverts ), on his second-to-last day at...

Highlights from Yiddish Actors and Friends 2016 Cultural Seder with Fyvush Finkel, Cantor Martin Moshe Bear, Cantor Naomi Hirsch Also: Hasia Segal: Yiddish Hagode (Replay) Also: Kalmen David: Di Fir Kashes (Replay)

Purim program with replays of Hasia Segal (Jokes), Martele Friedman (Purim Shpil), Reyzl Kirkel reads Betty Misheiker z"l’s “Der Feter Reb Zundl”, Moyshe Hollender z"l (Purim Shpil). Also, “Shoshanas Yaacoiv” from the Malavsky Family’s Purim album.

Purim program with replays of presentations by Hasia Segal, Myer Loketch, Yosef Lakhman, and Miriam Libenson z"l.

Interview with veteran Israeli actor Yaacov (“Yankele”) Bodo.

Interview with veteran Israeli actor Yaacov (“Yankele”) Bodo. (Replay from Mar. 30, 2016.)

In the first half of the show, following a brief news report from Kol Israel radio in Jerusalem, we feature part 1 of an interview with Motl and the late Bella Murstein, which we recorded in November 2012 but have not yet had an opportunity to air. Motl Murstein is well-known in the Boston community for his attendance over many years at most Yiddish events, at Brookline’s Congregation Kehill...

Zackary Sholem Berger discusses his new book of poetry One Nation Taken Out of Another . Poetry Reading with Sholem Berger Monday, Dec 14, 2015 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Workmen’s Circle Building, 1762 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02445 Zackary Sholem Berger ( @ZackBergerMDPhD ) will read from his newest book of poetry in English and Yiddish, _ One Nation Taken Out of Another _ (Apprentice House, 2014)...

Interview (part 1) with Mr. Amram Deutsch of Los Angeles, a survivor of the Holocaust originally from Sighet, and a cofounder or LA’s Congregation Bais Naftoli. Replay of last week’s interview with Shmuel Norich, publisher of the Yiddish Forward. Replay of our 2007 interview with Mikhl Zajac, originally from Warsaw, in recognition of his recent 100th birthday. Mazl tov!

Sam Norich, publisher of the Yiddish Forverts newspaper, gives an update on recent, current, and upcoming features of the Forverts, its web site (yiddish.forward.com), social media (e.g., @Forverts on Twitter). Avi Hoffman talks about his role as Willie Loman in the Yiddish translation of the late Jewish playwright Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. (Replay)

Avi Hoffman talks about his role as Willie Loman in the Yiddish translation of the late Jewish playwright Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. Iosif Lakhman discusses the Beilis Trial, which took place 100 years ago. (Replay)

Interview with Rabbi Joseph (Itzik-Leyb) Kolakowski, from upstate New York, about his recent article in the Forward: I’m an Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi and I Support Women’s Ordination. Interview, part 2, with Dovid Mermelstein, leader of President of the Association of Holocaust Survivors of Miami, survivor of Auschwitz and Matthausen, originally from the Carpathian mountain area that was un...

Replay of interview with Anita Norich, Professor of English and Jewish Studies at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, about her newest book, Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century . Gladys Heitin was a long-time friend of our cohost Hasia Segal. She was a veteran Boston Workmen’s Circle member and leader, a teacher of Yiddish, and a great activist for Yiddish, Yidd...

Main interview: Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein of Mehadrin Kashrus – mehadrin.org (replay from 2013, slightly shortened due to time constraints). Greetings from our sponsors Israel Book Shop, BLER Travel, The Butcherie, and Cheryl Ann’s Bakery. Greetings from our presenters and friends Hasia Segal, Yosef Lakhman, Dovid Braun, Linda Gritz, and Sholem Beinfeld.

Live broadcast from the “Yidish-Vokh” (Yiddish Week), a summer vacation week organized by the Yugntruf (Youth for Yiddish) organization (@yugntruf, yugntruf.org) at the Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown, MD, with special guests Arele Vishwanat, Reyna Schaechter, Eve Jochnowitz, Itzik Bleaman, and Shane Baker. Also featuring a special birthday greetings ln her 102nd to our cohost Hasia...

From our archives, Iosif Lakhman’s 2008 presentation of both historical overview and personal perspective on the events of 12 August 1952, often referred to as the “Night of the Murdered Poets”. Gennady Estraikh’s 2012 interview goes into facts and misunderstandings about the 12 August 1952, as well discussing this history of the observance of this event in Jewish, especial...

Excerpts from 2002 and 2015 interviews with Theodore Bikel previously aired on the Yiddish Voice; we talk with Theo Bikel’s longtime producer and friend Moishe Rosenfeldof Golden Land Productions ( www.goldenland.com ). Theodore Bikel, the Tony-nominated actor, folk singer and original Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music on Broadway, died yesterday, July 21, 2015, in Los Angeles aged 91....