The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

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/ League for Yiddish http://leagueforyiddish.org/ ( Gitl Schaec...

COVID-19: a roundtable discussion of the novel coronavirus, aka “Covid-19”, with special guests Jake Turx , @JakeTurx on Twitter and Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine ( http://www.amimagazine.org ); and Yosef Rapaport , @YosefRapaport on Twitter and commentator for hotline broadcaster Kol Mevaser ( http://Yiddish24.com ). Recorded in the late afternoon of Weds. Apr 1 2020, just...

Happy Passover! א כשרן און געזונטן פסח! Hear ads/greetings from our sponsors Israel Book Shop , The Butcherie , Cheryl Ann’s Bakery – Thanks to our sponsors! And hear from friends of the show, both near and far, Izzy Arbeiter , Motl Murstein , Leye (Shporrer) Leavitt , Sholem Beinfeld , Gitu Cycowicz (Israel), and Dovid Braun We present discussions on two timely topics, all in Yiddish:...

We present discussions on three timely topics, all in Yiddish: (1) COVID-19: a roundtable discussion of the novel coronavirus, aka “Covid-19”, with special guests Avremi Zaks , the host and producer of the Israeli Yiddish radio show Kan Yiddish (info on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/181106619326190/ ) Joining in the discussion is regular co-host Sholem Beinfeld , Co-Chief E...

We present discussions of two important and interesting topics, all in Yiddish: (1) COVID-19: a live roundtable discussion of the novel coronavirus, aka “Covid-19”, featuring special guests: Dr. Zackary (Sholem) Berger , who teaches at Johns Hopkins medical school, is an active primary care doctor in the Baltimore area, and is the author of Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient’s Gui...

Happy Purim! אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים! Highlights from past Yiddish Voice shows for Purim: Moyshe Hollender ע׳׳ה - sings Kiddush far Purim (recorded and first aired 2016) Martele Friedman צו לאַנגע יאָר sings Tomer Her Ikh Muzik Shpiln , with words and music by a member of the singer’s family (recorded and first aired 2020) Michael Wex interviews for Purim from 2014 and 2019 - well-known educator...

Today’s guests: Benny Mer , author of recent book, written in Hebrew, Smocza: A Biography of a Jewish Street in Warsaw (סמוצ׳ה: ביאגרפיה של רחוב יהודי בוורשה, בני מר https://www.magnespress.co.il/en/book/Smocza-4170 ) Kolya Borodulin , Director of Yiddish Programming at Workers Circle ( https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/ ), 2020 Spring Yiddish Classes starting soon – info:...

This week we observe Holocaust Rememberance Day as well as the 75-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, by hearing from three survivors of Auschwitz. Historian and Yiddish Voice cohost Sholem Beinfeld provides introductory remarks with a brief historical overview. Margaret (Martele) Friedman , originally from Groys-Kinyat (גרויס-קיניאַט), now Великі Ком&rsquo...

In honor of Avrom Sutzkever’s 10th Yahrtzeit: Richard Fein and Sholem Beinfeld read from and discuss the book The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever (SUNY Press, 2019), which presents Sutzkever’s poems with Fein’s English translations. Remarks on Sutzkever’s 10th Yortsayt by Beinfeld Interview with Fein about his book. (Previously aired on the Yiddish Voice in Septe...

Happy Hanukkah! אַ פֿריילעכן ליכטיקן חנוכּה Interview with Rav Moshe Kesselman , rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Tefila in Los Angeles. From our archive: חנוכּה greetings from current Yiddish Voice participants and supporters, tsu lange yor , Dovid Braun, Sholem Beinfeld, and Motl Murstein; and, in their memory from our dearly missed late participants: cohost and cofounder Hasia Segal ז״ל; cohost Io...

Interview with Motl Didner , Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene , Director of The Sorceress (די כּישוף־מאַכערין) , and Associate Director and Dialect Coach for the smash-hit production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (פֿידלער אויפֿן דאַך) . As Yiddish coach for Fiddler , Didner was the main person responsible for training the mostly non-Yiddish-speaking cast to mount th...

Yiddish New York preliminary events start this week, and our first two guests are here to talk about it! Josh Waletzky is on the organizing committee of Yiddish New York and is leading many sessions. He is a leading contemporary Yiddish songwriter and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He co-produced the Grammy-nominated album of Jewish songs of resistance, Partisans of Vilna (1989), and perf...

Nechama Netali-Gonen talks about her childhood, first as a happy child in the city of Khelm (Chełm in Polish), and then about her family’s perilous survival and escape from the Holocaust in Poland, and their eventual settlement in wartime Soviet Union. (Recorded in West Palm Beach, FL, at the 2018 conference of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants...

Dovid Katz talks about the Ukraine scandal from a Jewish and human rights perspective. Katz edits the web journal Defending History ( www. DefendingHistory.com ), which counters the Eastern European movement to obfuscate, without denying, the Holocaust. An internationally renowned expert on Yiddish, he is now working on a new online Yiddish dictionary ( www. YiddishCulturalDictionary.org ). His pe...

NOTE: essentially a repeat of Oct. 4, 2017, and Oct 11, 2017, with host intro by host Mark David and Cafe Europa event notice by Tania Leffman. For additional Cafe Europa info: Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Boston Waltham, Massachusetts Telephone: (781) 647-5327 Email: RZelfand@jfcsboston.org Website: https://www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/Older-Adults Gut Yontef, Gut Yor! גוט י...

A High Holidays mix of recent and past audio highlights. Enjoy! Holocaust survivor Motl Murstein gives this year’s New Year’s greetings and sings a Yiddish song, Afn Pripetshik . Recorded at Murstein’s Brookline home on Sept 18, 2019, and previously aired the same day. Archive: Eli Dovek , proprietor of Israel Book Shop: new year wishes (from 2009) Archive: the late Max Gelerman...

Leye Shporer-Leavitt joins regular host Mark David live in studio at WUNR in Boston. Holocaust survivor Motl Murstein gives New Year’s greetings and sings a Yiddish song, Afn Pripetshik . Recorded at Murstein’s Brookline home earlier the same day. Holocaust survivor Tania Lefman talks with Leye about Boston survivor community, past and present, and about upcoming events. Anna was speak...

Anna Rozenfeld talks about Polish Yiddish radio and discusses Celia Dropkin and reads some of her Yiddish poetry. Rozenfeld is an artist, an independent researcher, and a teacher and translator of Yiddish, as well as a former Yiddish radio journalist and presenter. Until 2012 she hosted the Yiddish radio program Naye Khvalyes , broadcast by Polish Radio External Service. In the mid-2010’s, s...

Author and translator Richard J. Fein (Yiddish name: Ruvn-Yankev) , along with his friend, collaborator, and regular Yiddish Voice cohost Sholem Beinfeld , discuss Fein’s recently published book The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever (SUNY Press, 2019), which features Sutzkever’s poems in their original Yiddish along with Fein’s English translations. Fein and Beinfeld als...

Interview with Sara Feldman , who is the Preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in Near Eastern Studies in 2014 and now teaches Yiddish language at Harvard at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. The interviewer, Sholem Beinfeld , is Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief...

Today’s show continues our series of interviews with activists on the Yiddish scene around the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library , which began Wednesday June 12 2019. We previously presented interviews with Ri J. (Reyze) Turner and Yitskhok Niborski. Gilles Rozier was born in France in 1963. He began to learn Yiddish in 1987. From 1994 until 2014 he served as Director of the Paris Yiddish-C...

Live show with Binyumen Schaechter, award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, musical director, and performer, live in studio; Motl Murstein (phone interview), holocaust survivor; Tania Lefman (live phone interview), holocaust survivor, and Sosye Fox (phone interview), host and producer of Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast, in Yiddish . Various topics discussed, including the JPPC , 4th-of-July,...

khsidish Yiddish …. and good-byes Bonus for June 26 2019 broadcast - interview with Yitschok Niborski

Yiddish dictionaries Bonus for June 26 2019 broadcast - interview with Yitschok Niborski

Bonus 1 - using computer, especially Google Books, for research Bonus for June 26 2019 broadcast - interview with Yitschok Niborski