Interview with Boris Sandler, by Yosef Lakhman and Meyer Dovid, on Boris’s 2nd-to-last day as Forverts (Yiddish Forward) editor. (This is an expanded version of the interview we aired last week.) For Yom HaShoah: Interview with the former Viekhne Sidranski from Grodne. (This is a replay of an interview conducted and originally aired in May 2014.)
A bit more of Pesach : music, greetings, and announcements. And then …. For Yom Hashoah : excerpts from Dovid Braun’s interview of Milke Baran , a Holocaust survivor from Oshmine (Oshmyany, near Vilna), from the Sholem Aleichem Shule 21 (Bronx)’s annual Yom Hashoah Hazkore . Interview of Boris Sandler , as Editor of the Yiddish Forward ( Forverts ), on his second-to-last day at this position. He retired Friday erev Pesach. By Yosef Lakhman. (This is an abbreviated excerpt. The full interview wil...
Highlights from Yiddish Actors and Friends 2016 Cultural Seder with Fyvush Finkel, Cantor Martin Moshe Bear, Cantor Naomi Hirsch Also: Hasia Segal: Yiddish Hagode (Replay) Also: Kalmen David: Di Fir Kashes (Replay)
Purim program with replays of Hasia Segal (Jokes), Martele Friedman (Purim Shpil), Reyzl Kirkel reads Betty Misheiker z"l’s “Der Feter Reb Zundl”, Moyshe Hollender z"l (Purim Shpil). Also, “Shoshanas Yaacoiv” from the Malavsky Family’s Purim album.
Purim program with replays of presentations by Hasia Segal, Myer Loketch, Yosef Lakhman, and Miriam Libenson z"l.
Interview with veteran Israeli actor Yaacov (“Yankele”) Bodo.
Interview with veteran Israeli actor Yaacov (“Yankele”) Bodo. (Replay from Mar. 30, 2016.)
In the first half of the show, following a brief news report from Kol Israel radio in Jerusalem, we feature part 1 of an interview with Motl and the late Bella Murstein, which we recorded in November 2012 but have not yet had an opportunity to air. Motl Murstein is well-known in the Boston community for his attendance over many years at most Yiddish events, at Brookline’s Congregation Kehillath Israel and other local shuls, and at Holocaust memorial events. Since the interview, Motl’s wife Bella...
Zackary Sholem Berger discusses his new book of poetry One Nation Taken Out of Another . Poetry Reading with Sholem Berger Monday, Dec 14, 2015 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Workmen’s Circle Building, 1762 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02445 Zackary Sholem Berger ( @ZackBergerMDPhD ) will read from his newest book of poetry in English and Yiddish, _ One Nation Taken Out of Another _ (Apprentice House, 2014) - a joyride on a bassackward hybrid with an American brain, Yiddish heart, and all sorts of wandering limb...
Interview (part 1) with Mr. Amram Deutsch of Los Angeles, a survivor of the Holocaust originally from Sighet, and a cofounder or LA’s Congregation Bais Naftoli. Replay of last week’s interview with Shmuel Norich, publisher of the Yiddish Forward. Replay of our 2007 interview with Mikhl Zajac, originally from Warsaw, in recognition of his recent 100th birthday. Mazl tov!
Sam Norich, publisher of the Yiddish Forverts newspaper, gives an update on recent, current, and upcoming features of the Forverts, its web site (yiddish.forward.com), social media (e.g., @Forverts on Twitter). Avi Hoffman talks about his role as Willie Loman in the Yiddish translation of the late Jewish playwright Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. (Replay)
Avi Hoffman talks about his role as Willie Loman in the Yiddish translation of the late Jewish playwright Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. Iosif Lakhman discusses the Beilis Trial, which took place 100 years ago. (Replay)
Interview with Rabbi Joseph (Itzik-Leyb) Kolakowski, from upstate New York, about his recent article in the Forward: I’m an Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi and I Support Women’s Ordination. Interview, part 2, with Dovid Mermelstein, leader of President of the Association of Holocaust Survivors of Miami, survivor of Auschwitz and Matthausen, originally from the Carpathian mountain area that was under Hungarian occupation during World War II.
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, Yiddish Culture, and secular Jewish/Yiddish identity. We replay excerpts from an interview with Gladys done in...
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 Segal, who in turn sent special greeings to our radio show and to the Yidish-Vokh.
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, especially Yiddish, cultural circles, as well as the future of such observances.
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. Bikel appeared on the Yiddish Voice with an interview in Yiddish just two months ago, in May 2015. Prior ...
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://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2351-2ed.htm...
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 forgotten. He was a frequent contributor to the “Yiddish Voice” radio show. The program features several recordin...
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.
