The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Yitskhok Niborski was born in Buenos Aires in 1947 and raised in a Yiddishist, secular family. He attended the Yiddish schools that then thrived in Buenos Aires and the Yiddish teachers’ training academy ( Lerer-Seminar ), specializing in Yiddish literature. He moved to Paris in 1979 to take up a position as Director of the Medem Library while also teaching at the prestigious Ecole Nationale...

Sebastian (Zekharye) Shulman recently joined KlezKanada, the annual Yiddish summer festival, as Executive Director and is a translator of Yiddish and Esperanto. See also KlezKanada home page: https://klezkanada.org Forverts article (in Yiddish): With a New Director KlezKanada Looks to the Future : http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/208420/with-a-new-director-klezkanada-looks-to-the-future/ Also:...

This show starts a series of interviews with activists on the Yiddish scene around the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library starting Wednesday June 12 2019 at 7:30 PM with an interview with Ri J. (Reyze) Turner. Ri J. (Reyze) Turner Ri J. Turner is a translator and Yiddish language teacher at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library, as well as an MA candidate in Yiddish Studies at the Hebrew Universi...

Jana Mazurkiewicz-Meisarosh is a Ph. D. candidate in the Slavic Department of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her dissertation research is on Yiddish Theater in Communist Warsaw. Originally from Poland, Jana holds a Master of Arts degree in Polish Philology and Jewish Studies from the University of Wrocław. Jana combines her Yiddish academic research with theater and community activism. Profess...

Enjoy a wonderful new presentation by Mikhoel Felsenbaum just aired on Israel’s Yiddish broadcast on broadcaster Kan . Kan Yiddish : https://www.kan.org.il/radio/program.aspx?progId=1136 - Michael Felsenbaum Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/michael-felsenbaum Presentation for Shavuos by Miriam Libenson z"l , originally aired on the Yiddish Voice in the 1990’s A short interview...

אַ פֿריילעכן יום העצמאות (Happy Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day))! We re-air some more or less recently aired interviews with Israelis in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut: Michael Felsenbaum and Avremi Zak discuss latest Israeli news, and Bella Bryks-Klein and Avremi Zak discuss upcoming Yiddish events in Israel. Previously broadcast, May 5 2019, by Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporati...

Interviews for Yom HaShoah Rokhl Zicherman lives in Los Angeles and is an Auschwitz survivor from Carpathian Czechoslovakia. She loves to sing with her two sisters who don’t live very close, but they often talk by phone. Here she sings In Auschwitzer Lager , describing a fate common to many the many teenagers from this region who were deported to Auschwitz in 1944: being separated from their...

פּסח באַגריסונגען Pesach music and greetings from sponsors and friends, some new, some old *, some ז״ל מיר ווינטשן אײַך אַ זיזן כּשרן פּסח טאַניע לעפֿמאַן Tania Lefman, from the The American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston, Inc. לאה שפּאָרער-לעוויט Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt שלום ביינפֿעלד Sholem Beinfeld ליבע גריץ פֿון באָסטאָנער אַרבעטער-רינג Linda...

פּסח באַגריסונגען Pesach music and greetings from sponsors and friends, some new, some old *, some ז״ל מיר ווינטשן אײַך אַ זיזן, כּשרן פּסח לאה שפּאָרער-לעוויט Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt שלום ביינפֿעלד Sholem Beinfeld ליבע גריץ פֿון באָסטאָנער אַרבעטער-רינג Linda Gritz for Boston Workmens’ Circle מאָטל מורשטיין Mark Murstein Mark (Motl) Murstein - excerpt of him singing Ekhod Mi Yodea Ha...

Interview with Binyumen Schaechter and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath , discussing the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC - thejppc.org ), of which Binyumen is the conductor and his sister Gitl is one of the singers. They discuss the history of the JPPC and their many years of involvement with it, and also talk about the upcoming Spring 2019 Gala Concert, Yiddish Flavors of Love: A Musical...

Highlights from past years’ Pesach , including Hasia Segal ’s Pesach presentation from Pesach 1991, originally aired on our predecessor radio show די ייִדישע שעה ( The Yiddish Hour / Di Yidishe Sho , WBRS 100.1 FM Waltham, MA) songs and greetings. Recently aired interviews: Interview with Kolya Borodulin , Director of Yiddish Programming at Workmen’s Circle ( Arbeter Ring ). Chec...

Interview with Chaim Jelen (Henry Jelen). Chaim was born at the end of WWII in Siberia, where his parents had escaped to from Poland and settled during WWII. He lives in Chicago, where he has been a leader in Holocaust education and memorialization, particularly among the second generation, for several decades. Music: Bruce Adler: A malke af peysekh (A Queen for Passover Moishe Oysher: Dayenu - It...

Michael Wex , renowned author and humorist, joins regular cohosts Leye Shporer-Leavitt, Sholem Beinfeld, and Mark David for a semi-serious discussion about Jewish humor and Purim. Info: http://michaelwex.com Note: some of this material was presented the previous week, but some had to be cut due to time limitatioms. This is an extended edition. Music: Binah Landau: Purim Lid Leyke Post: Purim , acc...

Rukhl Schaechter , editor of the Yiddish Forward ( פֿאָרווערטס ), speaks with regular cohost Sholem Beinfeld about the latest developments at the newspaper, including the plan to go digital-only and discontinue the printed version begun in 1897. Info: http://yiddish.forward.com Michael Wex , renowned author and humorist, joins regular cohosts Leye Shporer-Leavitt, Sholem Beinfeld, and Mark David f...

Interview with Holocaust Survivor Khasye Golomb Pollack (Carol Pollack), originally from Vilna, Lithuania, recorded at the recent conference of World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Music: various Yiddish songs by various performers - enjoy! Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS , an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: M...

Interview with Kolya Borodulin , Director of Yiddish Programming at Workmen’s Circle ( Arbeter Ring ). Check out all their Yiddish programming here: https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/ Interview with Dovid Braun , Academic Director of the 2019 YIVO-Bard Summer Program, also known as the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. More info here: h...

Interview with Kalman Weiser , discussing the late Yiddish language scholars Solomon (Shloyme) Birnbaum and Noyekh Prilutski. Professor Keith (Kalman) Weiser is the Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University, Toronto. His research focuses in the area of modern Jewish history and culture, specifically about language issues in Jewish life. His publications include Jewish Peo...

Interview with Esia Baran Friedman (Part 2). Esia, a Holocaust survivor from Vilna, Lithuania, talks about her family and her childhood in Vilna and surviving the Holocaust. Esia is one the survivors whose testimony is featured in the recent Nova documentary Holocaust Escape Tunnel ( https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/holocaust-escape-tunnel ). Part 1 of this interview was heard last week (Jan 23...

Interview with Esia Baran Friedman (Part 1). Esia, a holocaust survivor from Vilna, Lithuania, talks about her family and her childhood in Vilna and surviving the Holocaust. Esia is one the survivors whose testimony is featured in the recent Nova documentary Holocaust Escape Tunnel ( https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/holocaust-escape-tunnel ). Part 2 of this interview continues next week (Jan 30...

Jay Riazanow , a retiree in South Florida, talks about his life, from prewar shtetl in Belarus, surviving the Holocaust, growing up in the Soviet Union, moving to Israel, and finally coming to America. From our archives: Miriam Libenson Z"L : a talk in honor of the holiday Tu Bishvat, the holiday of the trees, originally broadcast in 1994. Music for Tu Bishvat Victor Berezinsky: Tu Bishvat He...

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Rabbi Dov-Ber Loketch : full hesped and interview in memory of his father, Rabbi Myer Loketch . An abridged version of this recording was presented in the radio show (and its podcast) originally broadcast December 19 2018.

Shloyshim Memorial program for Rabbi Myer Loketch , who passed away Nov 12 2018. Sholem Beinfeld , co-host of the Yiddish Voice, presents an overview of Reb Myer’s biography, followed by hespeydim by Rabbi Dov-Ber Loketch of Detroit, Myer’s son, and by Rabbi Shyke Lerner of Chabad Center of Brookline. Numerous highlights from the Yiddish Voice archives of interviews with and presentati...