The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

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....

Legendary actor and singer Theo Bikel talks about the new film about him, Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem, and about his recently republished book, Theo: An Autobiography. For further information on the film, which is currently in screenings at film festivals worldwide: http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/theodorebikel.htm For information on Theo: An Autobiography: http://uwp...

Highlights: previously aired: Yoely Lebowitz (interview); Moshe Hollender (z"l) (Kiddush for Purim); Sholem Beinfeld (discusses Ruth Wisse’s book No Joke: Making Jewish Humor) Air date: March 4, 2015

In memory of the late Mr. Moyshe (Morris) Hollender, who recently passed away. Hollender was a survivor of death camps in World War II. In his later years he served as Gabbai, Torah reader, and Ba’al Tefillah at Temple Beth Israel in Waltham, MA. For many years he was a treasured resource for collectors of old songs, poems, and melodies from Jewish life that might otherwise have been forgott...

Highlights: Michael Felsenbaum’s interview, part 2; Morris Hollender Z"L: his performance of KEIL MOLEH RACHAMIM from Gann Academy High School 2009 Yom HaShoah

Highlights: Interview with author Michael Felsenbaum (part 1). Morris Hollender Z"L (replay): Purim Kiddush and short interview. Played in his memory: he died the previous day Dec. 30, 2014. Cantor Ken Richmond sings Auld Lang Syne in Yiddish.

Highlights: interview with Avrohom Zaks, Yiddish-language radio presenter from Kol Israel (Israel)’s daily Yiddish radio program; farewell to Hanukkah with Reb Moshe Hollender’s heymish Honeirus Hololu, and greetings for Hanukkah for this end of the 8th day.

Highlights: visit to the 48 Kalisher St home of Israel’s Bund/Workmen’s Circle, including a lengthy interview with its director Bella Bryks-Klein, sounds from the Hanukkah party/concert with singer Yoni Eilat, Rivka Basman Ben Haim reading one of her poems, and a short interview with Yiddish literature doctoral student Amir Shomroni.

Highlights: an interview with the one and only Khazn Moyshe Kraus.

Highlights: Interview with Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch and music from his band Litvakus’s new CD “Raysn”

Highlights: interview with Dr. Dovid Fishman about the book he edited: “Droshes un Ksovim”, the 2009 book of writings in Yiddish by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (replay: last aired 21 July 2010). News report of previous day’s terrorist murders in Har Nof shul, and and host comments take note in particular of Rabbi Mosheh Twersky with his strong ties to Boston and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik...

Highlights: interview with Eliezer Niborski (replay: last aired 26 Feb 2014; recorded Aug 2013). Featured music: new CD “Raysn” by the band Litvakus.

Highlights: interviews with Gennady Estraikh from @forverts, singer Mira Kessler, + musicians Ken Richmond (@YiddishCantor) and Shira Shazeer. Kessler, Richmond, and Shazeer are appearing in the following YIDDISH CONCERT Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Workmen’s Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02445 General Admission $8 Special price for students and Workmen’s Ci...

Highlights (some repeated from last week): very short Erev Succos greeting from Cantor Kraus (Ottowa); from our archives: Miriam Libenson Lekoved Sukes (1997); Myer Loketch: Lekoved Sukes (2006)

Highlights: very short Erev Succos greeting from Cantor Kraus (Ottowa); from our archives: Miriam Libenson Lekoved Sukes (1997); Myer Loketch: Lekoved Sukes (2006)