On this day of President Trump’s second impeachment (Jan 13 2021), following last week’s historic 2021 storming of the United States Capitol , we discussed DC Meshugas (Washington craziness), with Sholem Beinfeld , co-host of The Yiddish Voice , co-chief-editor of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary , and Professor Emeritus, Washington U. in St. Louis; Dr. Zackary (Sholem) Berger , Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an active primary care doctor in the Baltimore ar...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Roundtable discussion of current events, including the American and Israeli elections, COVID-19, and antisemetism in Eastern Europe. Participating in the discussion are Professor Dovid Katz , a Vilna-based Yiddish scholar and activist in the field of Holocaust history and human rights; Avremi Zaks , radio journalist and host of Israel’s weekly Yiddish radio show Kan Yiddish ; and Sholem Beinfeld , a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice , co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-Englis...
Jan 02, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Roundtable discussion of current events, including the American and Israeli elections, COVID-19, and antisemetism in Eastern Europe. Participating in the discussion are Professor Dovid Katz , a Vilna-based Yiddish scholar and activist in the field of Holocaust history and human rights; Avremi Zaks , radio journalist and host of Israel’s weekly Yiddish radio show Kan Yiddish ; and Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice , co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr
Interview with Miriam Udel , editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature (NYU Press, October 2020). Additional info from publisher: https://nyupress.org/9781479874132/honey-on-the-page/ Miriam Udel is associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University, where she studies the Jewish encounter with modernity. She holds an AB in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, as well as a PhD in Comparati...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Khanedank / Thanksgivukkah 2013! Special rebroadcast! We rebroadcast/restreamed our 2013 special live broadcast from Weds Nov 27 2013, which that year occurred on the eve of both the USA Thanksgiving holiday and the first day of Hanukkah. Here’s part of our press press release for that show: “Erev Thanksgivukkah” Live! Wednesday Night on the Yiddish Voice WUNR 1600-AM/Boston 11/27/13 7:30 PM Internationally renowned Yiddish music master Hankus Netsky joins several musical friends live in-studio ...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr
This week’s Yiddish Voice presents an interview with Eleanor Reissa , narrator of Those Who Were There , a new podcast from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust are the subjects of the podcast, which just released its second season featuring witness interviews conducted by New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. Eleanor Reissa is a singer, actress, director, and writer, on both the English and Yiddish stages. In the interview...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr
Luzer Twersky , actor in Yiddish and American Theatre and Film (on Twitter as @Twersky). Twersky grew up speaking Yiddish in a Chassidic home in Boro Park but left that life behind as a young adult, cutting most ties with his family and community. He now works as an actor in film, television, and theater, performing both in Yiddish- and English-speaking roles. Twersky appears as one of the three subjects of the recent documentary One of Us , recently released on Netflix, which chronicles his and...
Nov 03, 2020•24 min
Jake Turx, senior Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine (on Twitter as @JakeTurx) A shorter version of this interview was originally aired on the Yiddish Voice radio show aired October 28 2020 and in episode 218 of The ‘Yiddish Voice’ Podcast with title “2020 Election Discussed by Holocaust Survivors et al”. The first 11 min. 17 sec. are the same as in the originally aired radio show/podcast. The remainder is new, previously unreleased audio....
Nov 03, 2020•31 min
Holocaust survivors and several others discuss the 2020 United States presidential election. Guests include: Bronia Brandman , a survivor originally from Jaworzno, Poland, not far from Auschwitz (Oświęcim); David Lenga , a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland; Carol Stulberg , a child of survivors and Senior Advisor for Leadership Giving at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Jake Turx, senior Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine (on Twitter as @JakeTurx); Luzer Twersky , actor in Yid...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr
In this time Chol Hamoed, between Succos and Shemini Atseres/Simchas Torah, we hear and remember three late great participants in the Yiddish Voice : Rav Myer Loketch z’l: on Succos, from our archive, originally recorded and aired in 2006 Hasia Segal z’l and Iosif Lakhman z’l: Rosh Hashonah greetings from our archives Lovely New Year’s greetings from friends, supporters, and participants in The Yiddish Voice : Tanya Lefman/American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Bos...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Highlights: Israeli Yiddish radio host Avremi Zaks ’s interview with Sholem Beinfeld continues and concludes. From our archive, from the 1990’s, Miriam Libenson talks all about Succos and Simchas Torah, reads an article about Succos by Ben Gailing, sings the song A Sukele , and is briefly interviewed about Succos, sharing somewhat mixed feelings she’d had as a child. Lovely New Year’s greetings from friends, supporters, and participants in The Yiddish Voice : Tanya Lefman/American Association of...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Rosh Hashona, the Jewish new year, as well as COVID-19 are a constant theme throughout this show, which features two terrific interviews along with greetings and announcements by sponsors, friends, and participants in The Yiddish Voice . Highlights: Interview with Rabbi Simon Jacobson , founder of the Meaningful Life Center ( https://www.meaningfullife.com/ ) and publisher of Algemeiner Journal , both an English-language Jewish news website ( https://www.algemeiner.com/ ) and a Yiddish-English w...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Rosh Hashona, the Jewish new year, as well as COVID-19 are a constant theme throughout this show, which features two terrific interviews along with greetings and announcements by sponsors, friends, and participants in The Yiddish Voice . Highlights: Interview with Rabbi Simon Jacobson , founder of the Meaningful Life Center ( https://www.meaningfullife.com/ ) and publisher of Algemeiner Journal , both an English-language Jewish news website ( https://www.algemeiner.com/ ) and a Yiddish-English w...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Highlights: Interview with Leo (Leybl) Melamed , Chairman Emeritus of CME Group, better known by its former name The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, discussing the recent film Futures Past , made by his son, the film maker Jordan Melamed, partly documenting the end of an era in financial futures trading and partly documenting the relationship between a father and son. Further info: http://www.futurespastmovie.com/ Sholem Beinfeld continues his discussion of Yiddish proverbs collected by Ignats Bern...
Sep 12, 2020•1 hr
In the first part of our show, hear Dovid Braun talk about the amazing 2020 YIVO Yiddish Summer Program, interviewed by Sholem Beinfeld. And in the last part of the show, hear Sholem Beinfeld read and interpret selections from the book יידישע שפּריכווערטער און רעדענסארטען ( Yidishe Shprikhverter un Redensartn ), by Ignats Bernshteyn, originally published in Warsaw in 1908, likely the largest collection of Yiddish proverbs ever assembled. Dovid Braun is the Academic Director of the intensive U. W...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min
We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובֿה - אַ גוט געזונט יאָר Hear a roundtable discussion of three 2020 Yiddish summer programs and how they’ve managed with the COVID-19 circumstances. Our particpants: Hy Wolfe / חיים וואָלף - we’re delighted to welcome Hy on board as guest co-host of this week’s show! Hy Wolfe is an actor, head of the Hebrew Actors Union Foundation, head of CYCO Yiddish Book Center, multi-decade participant in Yidish-Vokh [New York] Miriam Trinh / מרי...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr
This show recalls the tragic events in the USSR of August 12, 1952. Popularly known as “Night of the Murdered Poets”, the event itself, as well as associated themes – such as Yiddish language and culture in the Soviet Union, Soviet Bloc, and in leftist circles – is being remembered on this special broadcast by two distinguished guests, Gennady Estraikh and Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh. The so-called Night of the Murdered Yiddish Poets took place on August 12, 1952, when thirteen leading Jewish po...
Aug 15, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Meet Diana Cohen (a/k/a Dina Godiner). She is the first cousin of a famous journalist, the late Daniel Schorr. She’s also the first cousin of a not-so-famous violinist, the late Semyon Godiner. In 2008, Diana and Daniel had not met nor heard of their cousin, who grew up in the former Soviet Union and was now living in Israel. The Yiddish Voice got them together! How? Well, to find out, listen to that amazing story, told by Dina, and find out more about her interesting life. You’ll also hear some...
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr
Rav Moshe Kesselman is the rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Tefila in Los Angeles. He talks about Tisha B’Ov, the Jewish day of fasting and communal mourning that begins the same evening (July 29) as this show goes out on the radio. He was interviewed via Zoom the day before the show from his home in Los Angeles. The late Anita Garlick was interviewed at her home in Brookline, MA, in September 2019. She later passed away in March of 2020. Born in 1924 and raised in the Brownsville section of Brookl...
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min
This is Miriam Libenson’s 1995 talk for Tisha B’Ov. This is a supplementary bonus podcast of the Yiddish Voice . This was originally recorded for and aired on the Yiddish Voice ( ייִדיש קול ) on Aug 2 1995. Miriam Libenson (מרים ליבנזון ז״ל) was born in Aniksht, Lithuania, in the early 1910’s. She moved to Palestine in the 1930’s, and moved to the US after the war, settling in Boston. She was a Jewish studies and Hebrew language teacher in the Boston area for over forty years. Her poetry in Yidd...
Jul 29, 2020•12 min
This week’s Yiddish Voice presents an interview, in Yiddish, with the creator of the recently published Yiddish translation of the first of the Harry Potter book series, Arun (“Arele”) Viswanath (אַרעלע ווישוואַנאַט). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the wildly popular first novel in the Harry Potter series, written by British author J. K. Rowling. The book was first published in 1997. The Yiddish edition, with the title הערי פּאָטער און דער פֿילאָסאָפֿישער שטיין ( Harry Potter un der...
May 07, 2020•1 hr
Thanks to tonight’s wonderful guests! They were all recorded on Wed Apr 29 2020, during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, during the day of Yom Haatzmaut in USA and Motzei (night after) Yom Haatzmaut in Israel. יום העצמאות בשעת דער מגפֿה Yom Haatzmaut Amid COVID-19: Esti (Jahr) Shnek - a Holocaust survivor living in Haifa, originally from Jasina, Czechoslovakia. In the interview Esti recounts that around this day 75 years ago she was in a subcamp of Dachau, and a few days later was finally libera...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
To mark this year’s Yom HaShoah and the 75th anniversary since liberation we hear from two survivors: Zoli Langer , who lives in Los Angeles, was born in 1927 in Minai, a village near the small town of Užhorod, Czechoslovakia, (now Ukraine). He, his parents, and 5 siblings were deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. He was the only one to survive. He describes his life before and during the war and ultimately his liberation in April 1945, 75 years ago this month. Recorded November, 2019. R...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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/ Friends and Sponsors of the Show Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath wishes a happy Pesach and tells of the wonderful work being done by League for Yiddish http://leagueforyiddish.org/ , including their new online Eng...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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 Schaechter-Viswanath recorded Apr 7 2020) CYCO Books http://www.cycobooks.org/ ( Hy Wolfe recorded Apr 7 2020) A...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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 before the live broadcast. Note: a shortened version of this appeared in the first quarter-hour of the broadcas...
Apr 02, 2020•52 min
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: (1) COVID-19: a roundtable discussion of the novel coronavirus, aka “Covid-19”, with special guests Jake Turx ,...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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 Editor of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Washington Universi...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr
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 Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond ; and Rukhl Schaechter , editor of the Forverts (Yiddish Forward ) new...
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr
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, author, and entertainer. Info: http://michaelwex.com/ Yoely Lebovits - interview for Purim from 2014 - w...
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr
