The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול lost a great friend. Izzy Arbeiter passed away this past Friday, Oct 29 2021, at the age of 96. To mark this sad loss, we are replaying our 2005 interview that was led by our late cohost Iosif Lakhman . See also: Boston Globe : Israel Arbeiter, 96, Holocaust survivor who believed ‘there is never enough remembering’ Forward : Remembering Izzy Arbeiter, the Holoc...

Sosye Fox (Sandy Fox) of Vaybertaytsh interviews Meyer Dovid (Mark David), host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קון , and vice versa. Thanks to In Geveb for putting this together. See also/related: Yiddish Podcasts in Conversation: Vaybertaytsh and Dos Yidishe Kol – article about this interview in In geveb Episode 59: ?דער ייִדישער פּאָדקאַסט – װוּהין | The Yiddish Podcast Today /October...

Recorded at Yugntruf’s Yidish-Vokh in Copake, NY, in August 2021: Ruth Kohn , Libby Pollak and Dovid Braun telling jokes in Yiddish Best of Rosh Hashona - Announcements and well-wishes for the new year from sponsors and friends and a High Holidays mix of recent and past audio highlights. Enjoy! Eli Dovek , proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009) Holocaust survivors Tania Lefman and Mary E...

Highlights: Zelda Polofsky , a Holocaust survivor from a shtetl near Vilna, interviewed by Dovid Braun , discussing her early life, both before and during the Holocaust. Announcements and well-wishes for the new year (Rosh Hashona) from sponsors and friends. Music: Goldie Malavsky: Zochreinu L’Chayim Shmuel Malavsky and Family: B’Rosh Hashonah" Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFAN...

Listen to the Yiddish Voice recorded live at the annual Yiddish Week ( Yidish-Vokh ) in Copake, NY, in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. There, every year, the organization Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish creates summer colony, where Yiddish-speaking people from all parts of the world gather each year to enjoy a week of summer vacation entirely in Yiddish. We played a game show-type game, lis...

Interview with Hershl Hartman , discussing his work as a Yiddish journalist, an educator in secular Yiddish-oriented schools, and a translator from Yiddish to English. Hershl Hartman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. He has been a leader at the Sholem Community in Los Angeles for more than fifty years, serving as Education Director/ Vegvayzer since 1967. Between 1967 and 1985, he was also t...

From our archive: The Yiddish Voice from July 24 2013, with Gitu Cycowitz (Jerusalem) and Rabbi Shmuel Posner (Boston). Air Date: July 21 2021 (originally aired July 24 2013)

Interview with Irene Zisblatt , who was one of the participants in the film The Last Days , released in 1998, about the Holocaust in Hungary. The Yiddish Voice spoke to Irene recently (late June 2021) via Zoom. Irene was born in Polena, Czechoslovakia, which was in Hungary during WWII and is now in Ukraine. Irene survived the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, as she describes in the film and to some...

Most of this week’s show was taken up with the second part of our interview with Rachel Rojanski , discussing her book Yiddish in Israel: A History , published in English by Indiana University Press in 2020. The discussion is in Yiddish. Last week’s show (May 26 2021) presented the first part of the discussion. The second part aired this week on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Rachel Rojanski...

Most of this week’s show was taken up with the first part of our interview with Rachel Rojanski , discussing her book Yiddish in Israel: A History , published in English by Indiana University Press in 2020. The discussion is in Yiddish. This week’s show (May 26 2021) presented the first part of the discussion, with the second part set to air the following Wednesday, June 2, 2021 (and l...

Online Concert Announcement: May 15, 2021: Arbeter Ring ’s A Besere Velt chorus with special guests - see: https://www.circleboston.org/abetterworld Avremi Zaks , Jerusalem-based radio journalist and host of Israel’s weekly Yiddish radio show Kan Yiddish , speaks about recent news in Israel, including the latest war and the Miron tragedy this past Lag Baomer. Rav Izchak Kin talks about...

Interview with developers of the Yiddish course on the language-learning app Duolingo: Meena Viswanath, brothers Isac Polasak and Israel Polasak ; Sholem ; and Yosi (@MudnerParshoyn on Twitter). The interview was recorded on April 11, 2021, over Zoom and is entirely in Yiddish. Participating in the interview are historian Prof. Sholem Beinfeld , along with regular host Mark David. For more info, h...

Extended version of interview with Miriam Trinh, which was shortened due to time limitations on the original broadcast .

Extended version of interview with Avremi Zaks, which was shortened due to time limitations on the original broadcast .

We observe יום העצמאותּ Yom Haatsmaut with three guests who all currently reside in Jerusalem, Israel: Mrs. Gisel (Gitu) Cycowicz , Auschwitz survivor originally from Chust, Czechoslovakia, discussing her personal history and reflections on this year’s Yom Hazikaron/Yom Haatsmaut. Avremi Zaks is the host of Kan Yiddish , which is sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Isr...

In this show we observe Yom HaShoah with part 2 of a fantastic new interview with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter , discussing his experiences as a boy growing up in Lodz, Poland, later relocating to Warsaw, surviving the Warsaw Ghetto as well as deportation to the Majdanek death camp. This week’s show the second part of the discussion, with the first part having aired the previous Wednesd...

In this show we finish out Pesach and transition to Yom HaShoah with a fantastic new interview with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter , discussing his experiences as a boy growing up in Lodz, Poland, later relocating to Warsaw, surviving the Warsaw Ghetto as well as deportation to the Majdanek death camp. This week’s show presents the first part of the discussion, with the second part airing...

Happy Passover! א כשרן און געזונטן פסח! Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop https://www.israelbookshop.com/ ( Eli Dovek recorded Mar 28 2007) The Butcherie https://www.butcherie.com/ ( Max Gelerman ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) Cheryl Ann’s Bakery http://cherylannsbakery.com/ AAJHS of Greater Boston http://www.generationsafterboston.org...

Happy Passover! א כשרן און געזונטן פסח! Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop https://www.israelbookshop.com/ ( Eli Dovek recorded Mar 28 2007) The Butcherie https://www.butcherie.com/ ( Max Gelerman ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) Cheryl Ann’s Bakery http://cherylannsbakery.com/ AAJHS of Greater Boston http://www.generationsafterboston.org...

Interview (part 2) with Mike Burstyn , discussing the recently released stream of Megillah Cycle , which premiered February 21. The first part aired the previous Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Burstyn directed Megillah Cycle and performed three of its roles. The show is his adaptation of Itzik Manger’s famed Megile-Lider (Poems of the Megillah) , a book published in Warsaw in 1936 as a playfully an...

אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים! Interview (part 1) with Mike Burstyn , discussing the recently released stream of Megillah Cycle , which premiered February 21. The second part will be airing the following Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Burstyn directed Megillah Cycle and performed three of its roles. The show is his adaptation of Itzik Manger’s famed Megile-Lider (Poems of the Megillah) , a book published in Wars...

A discussion between Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter and historian Prof. Sholem Beinfeld on the topic of the powerful role of the woman in the Eastern European shtetl. Schaechter argues women in Jewish traditional life are often stereotyped as passive and invisible particularly in the public sphere, while they were in fact highly respected and relied upon within the family, and, because they were...

Tonight’s show is an interview with Sasha Lurje and Zisl Slepovitch, who discuss the Songs From Testimonies project, which collects and records songs and poems discovered in the testimonies of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University . The songs are sung in a variety of languages, including Yiddish, Polish, and French, from both the prewar period as well as fr...