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 Would Have Been Enough Barry Sisters: Passover Medley Lori Cahan and Meyshke Alpert: In Dem Land Fu...
Mar 29, 2019•59 min
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 , accompanied by Rubin Ossofsky Gadi Yagil: Di Elegye fun Fastrigose Ruth Rubin: Yakhne-Dvoshke Fort in S...
Mar 21, 2019•59 min
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 for a semi-serious discussion about Jewish humor and Purim. Info: http://michaelwex.com Music: Leyke ...
Mar 20, 2019•59 min
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: March 6, 2019...
Mar 12, 2019•1 hr
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: https://summerprogram.yivo.org/ NB: First deadline: International and Financial Aid Applicants: February 28...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr
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 People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (University of Toronto Press, 2011) an...
Feb 07, 2019•1 hr
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 2019). This interview took place at a gathering of Holocaust survivors and descendants this past No...
Jan 31, 2019•58 min
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 2019). Hankus Netsky (pianist, arranger) visited our home studio recently and generously provided u...
Jan 31, 2019•1 hr
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 Henry Carrey: Tu Beshvat (Music and Lyrics by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman) Ruth Levin: A Hoykher Boym (Lyric...
Jan 21, 2019•59 min
Air Date: Jan 9 2018 Original Air Date: Jun 27 2018
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr
Air Date: Jan 2 2019 Original Air Date: Jan 3 2018
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr
Air Date: Dec 26 2018 Original Air Date: Aug 8 2018
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr
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.
Dec 21, 2018•32 min
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 presentations by Reb Myer Loketch Z’‘L are heard throughout, and also a rare special replay of a greeting by Reb Myer’s wi...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr
Dovid Braun and Itzik Gottesman discuss the upcoming Yiddish New York festival of Yiddish languge and culture. Yiddish linguist Braun will be presenting an advanced workshop on Yiddish dialects in Yiddish during Yiddish New York. Gottesman, a PhD and internationally recognized scholar of Yiddish language and culture, is a producer of Yiddish New York. Info: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com Libe Gritz talks about the upcoming concert by the Boston Workmen’s Circle’s A Besere Velt chorus at Yiddish ...
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr
Libe Gritz talks about the upcoming concert by the Boston Workmen’s Circle’s A Besere Velt chorus at Yiddish New York. The concert titled “Sing Out, Fight Back! – A Besere Velt Chorus!” takes place SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2:45 – 4:00pm At the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Libe (also known as Linda) Gritz is a leading member, often a soloist, of the chorus, which sings almost entirely in Yiddish. She is a long-time member and leader of the Boston Workmen’s Cir...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Henry Carrey talks about the upcoming concert he’s performing in, YIDDISH RADIO LIVES! A Musical Tribute to Ben Gailing at 120 ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hankus-netskys-hebrew-national-salvage-tickets-51815656022 ); his mother Leyke Post, a Yiddish actress, singer, and radio personality; meeting Ben Gailing; his mother’s reunion with Gailing at KlezKamp 1998; how he learned Yiddish; his late brother Dovid Carrey, a noted Yiddish actor and singer; his own commercial Yiddish recordings. Rav My...
Nov 29, 2018•1 hr
Happy Thanksgiving! אַ פֿריילעכן דאַנק-טאָג! Yankl-Perets Blum discusses various aspects of his involvement with Yiddish. Blum is a Yiddish teacher, linguist, polyglot, board member of Yugntruf (yugntruf.org), developer of YiddishPop.com, developer of “Yiddish Typer” (Chrome extension). Yiddish Typer web page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yiddish-typer/higlebidpnhccabnhankdoiiccnnfkko?hl=en Hankus Netsky , Klezmer music star, discusses his upcoming show YIDDISH RADIO LIVES! A Musica...
Nov 23, 2018•1 hr
******מיר טרויערן נאָך די קדושים פֿון דער פּיטסבורגער שחיטה Sholem Beinfeld : Words of Condolence on Pittsburgh Massacre Ber Kotlerman : Interview on the writer Der Nister, the subject of his forthcoming lectures in New York and Los Angeles Cantor Moyshe Taube : Interview about the Pittsburgh massacre with the famed cantor and Holocaust survivor living in Squirrel Hill Music: Cantor Sholom Katz: El Moley Rachamim Cantor Avrohom Brun: Vos Darfn Mir Veynen Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TA...
Nov 01, 2018•59 min
Sholem Berger discusses and reads from his latest book of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, “Vi lebt zikh dortn? Lider un proze-bashraybungen”, available here: http://bit.ly/bergerpoetry Special guest co-hosts Sholem Beinfeld and Leah Shporer Leavitt are live in studio for special cultural presentations. Yiddish songs performed by the late cantor and folksinger Abraham Brun from his album on Folkways Records Songs of the Ghetto Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS , an instrumental track from t...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr
Vivi Lachs discusses her book Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 (Wayne State University Press) and music she has created based on historic Yiddish songs from Whitechapel. Lachs will be giving a talk on Sunday Oct 21 2018 at the Boston Workmen’s Circle. For information on Lachs’s book Whitechapel Noise : https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/whitechapel-noise For information on Lachs’s talk at Workmen’s Circle: https://www.facebook.com/even...
Oct 19, 2018•59 min
Kolye Borodulin discusses his recent return to Birobidzhan, the town famed as the center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia where he was born and raised. Kolye also discusses the upcoming Yiddish language classes offered by the Workmen’s Circle, available both in-person and online. For further info: https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/ The film Who Will Write Our History will be shown at the forthcoming Boston Jewish Film Festival in November 2018. We are airing an excerpt of o...
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr
Sabina Brukner discusses Yiddish Fiddler, that is, the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof , now playing at the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City, where Sabina serves officially as Literary Manager and unofficially as Yiddish language coach. For info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Greetings from our good friends and frequent contributors Sholem Beinfeld, Dovid Braun, and Mordkhe Murstein for the New Year Holidays (from last year’s show) From our archives: intervie...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr
Previously aired Oct 10, 2016 We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! For Succos and Simchas Torah: Miriam Libenson z"l (from the ‘90’s) and Myer Loketch צו לאַנגע יאָר (from 2006) Air Date: October 10, 2016 AND September 19, 2018
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Previously aired Sep 27, 2017. We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! We thank those who have pledged or made financial contributions to the Yiddish Voice during the past year. We recall the names of Yiddish Voice friends, supporters, and participants who died during the past year. Rabbi Itzchak Kin : questions and answers for the ten days of repentance from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. Music: “Un’sane Tokef” (a part ...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt joins regular host Meyer (Mark David) as co-host for a lively “Erev Rosh Hashona” program live from WUNR studios in downtown Boston, joined by phone by regular contributors Dovid Braun and Sholem Beinfeld as well as special guest Rav Avrohom Marmorstein . Leye gave a report on the 2018 Yugntruf Yidish-Vokh retreat she recently attended and provided info on upcoming Yiddish offerings at the Boston Workmen’s Circle. Dovid Braun reported on his recent experience teach...
Sep 07, 2018•59 min
Interviews with two cast members of the smash-hit Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof , known as Fidler afn Dakh in Yiddish, which has just had its run at the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene in New York extended by two months. Info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Michael Yashinsky played the roles of Mordkhe the innkeeper as well as Nokhem the beggar from the beginning of the current production of Fidler Afn Dakh until around the broadcast date on Aug 30 2018. We wish Michael succ...
Aug 30, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Interview with Anna Shternshis , Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at University of Toronto. The interview is presented in memory of 12 August 1952, when thirteen Jews were executed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, five of them Yiddish writers Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, Leib Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson. Dr. Shternshis was executive producer of the recently released CD Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II , based on her research on Moisei Beregovsky’s archive, which ...
Aug 09, 2018•1 hr
Kan Yiddish radio hosts Avremi Zaks and Mikhoel Felsenbaum and דאָס ייִדישע קול host Mark David interviewed each other about their Yiddish radio shows. Kan Yiddish , sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel ( https://www.yiddish-rashutleumit.co.il/ ), is broadcast in Israel on public radio at frequencies 104.9 FM and 105.3 FM every Friday at 4 p.m. and on 101.5 FM at midnight from Saturday to Sunday. Audio archives of the Kan Yiddish radio show can be accessed online her...
Jul 27, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Interview with Debra Caplan discussing her book Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld , a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary , and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Music: Excerpts from David Tamkin’s opera The Dybbuk , inspired by the play first and most famously performed by the Vilna Troupe. Track: Nigun o...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr
