The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Local long-time listener and occasional contributor Mark (Motl) Murstein recited his own translation of a poem written in Polish about the Holocaust, which to our knowledge had never been translated, much less broadcast, before! Also, Mark gave sang us a “popular” song, of which we have to date not found any recordings. Also, we replayed excerpts of the interview aired July 13, 2016, w...

Air date: August 17, 2016

Part 1: Elie Wiesel: Shloyshim (In Memoriam). Featuring a 2012 interview of Elie Wiesel by Max Kohn, originally broadcast on SBS Radio Australia’s Yiddish service, and an excerpt of Wiesel’s first book, in Yiddish, “Un Di Velt Hot Geshvign”, from the Jewish Public Library of Montreal’s collection, courtesy of the National Yiddish Book Center’s online archive. Pa...

[Replay from previous week almost exactly except for a brief announcement to that effect near beginning. Sorry, it’s summer. :)) Elye Davis from Yugntruf.org talks about the Yidish-Vokh. (replayed from last week’s show) Rabbis Dovid Weiss-Halivni and Joseph Pollak celebrated Elie Wiesel’s 80th birthday in 2008 here in Boston and were interviewed by the Yiddish Voice. Here are som...

Elye Davis from Yugntruf.org talks about the Yidish-Vokh. (replayed from last week’s show) Rabbis Dovid Weiss-Halivni and Joseph Pollak celebrated Elie Wiesel’s 80th birthday in 2008 here in Boston and were interviewed by the Yiddish Voice. Here are some excerpts from those interviews, which we last played in 2008. Note: we’ll have a full program on Elie Wiesel for the Shloyshim...

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...