Dovid Braun-YIVO Summer Program; Lilly Segelstein - Survivor from Klitsherkes

• Hear all about the upcoming 2022 YIVO Summer Program from Dovid Braun, the summer program’s academic director. There’s still time to register, for in person or online classes. For more info, check out their web site: https://summerprogram.yivo.org

• Hear an interview with Lilly Segelstein, an Auschwitz survivor who was born in Klitsherkes (קליטשערקעס), then in Czechoslovakia, and today’s Kliucharky, a village in Ukraine, near Mukacheve in Zakarpattia Oblast. Lilly is the mother of Cookie Segelstein, who assists her mother on this interview. Cookie is the acclaimed Klezmer violinist of Veretski Pass, whose music is featured in the latter part of the show.

• Hear greetings for Pesach from sponsors and friends!

  • Motl Murstein, Holocaust survivor in Brookline (from 2020)
  • Max Gelerman ז"ל, proprietor of The Butcherie (from 2005)
  • Cheryl Moore/Moore Family/Cheryl Ann’s Bakery
  • Eli Dovek, proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009)

• Music:

  • Veretski Pass: Veretskier Kolomeyke
  • Veretski Pass: Segelsteins Geveyn
  • Veretski Pass: Papir is Dokh Vays
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air Date: March 23, 2022