Highlights of this week’s show: Interview with freygl gertsovski , who founded Queer Yiddish Camp , on the upcoming cabaret fundraiser to benefit Queer Yiddish Camp taking place Sun., Dec. 3, 2023, 2 PM Eastern, on Zoom. Info and tickets online here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/radyiddish/1025964 We spoke via Whatsapp on Nov. 6, 2023. Interviews with four Holocaust survivors about Israel and antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack and the current war in Israel. Gitu Cycowitz...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 15 min
מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,400 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע צוריקקומען אַהיים בשלום. הערט אינטערוויוען מיט ישׂראלים וועגן דער טעראַר-אַטאַקע און דער איצטיקער מלחמה אין ישׂראל: אלי שאַרפֿשטיין Eli Sharfstein (Spoke by WhatsApp Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023) בעלאַ בריקס-קלײַן Bella Bryks-Klein (Spoke ...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 41 min
מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,400 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע צוריקקומען אַהיים בשלום. הערט אַן אינטערוויו מיט דניאל גלאי וועגן דער טעראַר-אַטאַקע און דער איצטיקער מלחמה אין ישׂראל. גלאי איז אַ קאָמפּאָזיטאָר, דראַמאַטורג,כּלל-טוער פֿאַר ייִדיש, ייִדיש-פּעדאַגאָג און -שרײַבער, און פֿאָרזיצער פֿון...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 29 min
מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,200 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע צוריקקומען אַהיים בשלום. הערט אַ קאַמענטאַר פֿונעם היסטאָריקער פּראָפֿ׳ שלום ביינפֿעלד , אַ באַריכט פֿון ישׂראל פֿונעם ייִדיש-ראַדיאָ פּרעזענטירער אבֿרהמי זאַקס און אַ דיסקוסיע וועגן דער טעראַר-אַטאַקע און דער איצטיקער מלחמה אין ישׂראל....
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 27 min
This week, greetings for חול המועד סוכּות ( Chol Hamoed Succos ) from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with Succos Vort and two interviews, and then a great deal of music appropriate for Yom Tov days of Succos/Shemini Atseres/Simchas Torah ! אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער אַ גוט קוויטל און אַ גמר חתימה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings from Judy Altmann , Holocaust survivor originally from Jasina, Czechoslovakia. Greetings from Leyzer M...
Oct 05, 2023•2 hr 9 min
This week, greetings for גמר חתימה טובֿה ( Gmar Chassima Toyve , a good final sealing) from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an excellent “Best of Succos” program from our archive (2019) with various presenters and lots of Succos music. אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער אַ גוט קוויטל און אַ גמר חתימה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings from Judy Altmann , Holocaust survivor originally from Jasina, Czechoslovakia. Greetings from Leyzer M...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 15 min
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an excellent interview from our archive with Rabbi Moshe Kesselman (2022). אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער אַ גוט קוויטל און אַ לײַכטן תּענית - גמר חתימה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings from Judy Altmann , Holocaust survivor originally from Jasina, Czechoslovakia. Greetings from Leyzer Maimon , Holocaust survivor originally from Bilgoray, Poland, and leade...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 27 min
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an exciting new interviews with Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein as well as an encore presentation on the High Holidays by Miriam Libenson ז״ל from the archive of our predecessor show די ייִדישע שעה from 1992. אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער לשנה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with exciting new interviews with Rabbi Mordechai-Tzvi Solomon and Eli Grodko ! אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער לשנה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston , featuring members Tania Lefman (Treasurer), Mary Ehrlich, Joyce Levin, Rosalie Reszelbach, and Janet Stein (Pr...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Interview with Lily (ליליע) Weitzman and Jonah (יונה) Sidman , who recently led a workshop to teach songs created by them and others active in Yiddish language and culture activities around the Boston Workers Circle. The Yiddish Voice was on hand to record four songs sung by participants in the workshop they led, titled נײַע לידער פֿון באָסטאָן (New Songs from Boston), presented at the 2023 Yidish-Vokh , which took place earlier in August in Copake, NY, and was sponsored by the organization Yugn...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This week, interviews with Nick Underwood and Dovid Braun ! Interview with Nick Underwood on Yiddish Paris and Nick’s book Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which describes the rich Yiddish-speaking culture of emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris during the interwar years. The interviewer is Sholem Beinfeld , cohost of The Yiddish Voice , co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary , and Professor of History, Emerit...
Aug 25, 2023•59 min
This week, interviews with Yelena Shmulenson and Boris Sandler in memory of the August 12, 1952 tragedy known as Night of the Murdered Poets , when thirteen Soviet Jews, all leading intellectuals, five of whom were top Yiddish writers, were executed in the Lubianka Prison in Moscow on false charges of spying and treason. The charges were reexamined and admitted to have “no substance” by the Soviet authorities less than four years later. For more information on August 12 1952 and the history and ...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 17 min
from our archive: Nathan Kasdan (נחום קאָזשדאַן), who died one year ago (JULY 14, 2022), gave us an extraordinary interview in 2013, which we’ve previously aired in 2013 and 2014 as well as in 2015. We recently learned that Nathan passed away, about a year ago. Considering Nathan’s yahrtzeit, as well as the fact that it’s erev Tisha B’Ov, we’re re-airing our interview with Nathan again. from our archive: Miriam Libenson , our late-great resident poet and Yiddish presenter extraordinaire, discuss...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 10 min
This week, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Rabbi Izchak Kin . Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is chairperson of the League for Yiddish . She discusses the League for Yiddish’s Words of the Week, specifically the recent week devoted to the armed uprising in Russia. We reached her by Zoom on June 9, 2023. Rabbi Izchak Kin talks about various memories of his personal life, starting with memories of Pesach in his childhood. Rav Kin is a Modzitzer chossid who now lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Israel. T...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This week, Sholem Beinfeld discusses the recent uprising in Russia, and Avremi Zak and Meyer Hirshman discuss Israeli society and politics. Sholem Beinfeld was recorded on the day of broadcast (July 5, 2023). The first interview with Avremi Zak was by The Yiddish Voice on April 26, 2023. The second interview of Meyer Hirshman by Avremi Zak was by Kan Yiddish and originally aired on Israeli radio on June 30, 2023 – thanks to Kan Yiddish , Avremi Zak, and Meyer Hirshman for this interview. Music: ...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min
The Yiddish Voice was in Israel earlier in June 2023 and had the opportunity to interview Avrom Novershtern , who is professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently serves as the director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv, a cultural center devoted to Yiddish and the Eastern European Jewish Heritage Topics discussed: About Beys Sholem Aleykhem - history, accomplishments, current activities (בית שלום עליכם) ( Find on Facebook ; Find on the Web ). ...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr
Highlights: interview with Kolya Borodulin , Director of Yiddish Programming at Arbeter Ring ( circle.org ), talking about the Summer 2023 Yiddish course offerings currently starting or about to start online now. interview, part 2, with Mary Ehrlich , a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh (Giedraiciai in Lithuanian), a shtetl near Vilna (and closer to the Vilkomir). In Mary Ehrlich’s first interview she talked about her childhood years up through the arrival of the Germans ...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with Fathers Day music at the end. See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/nechama-netali-gonen Air date: June 14, 2023
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 19 min
interview with Daniel Galay ( דניאל גלאי ), an Israeli composor, musician, translator, writer, educator, and Yiddish community leader and activist. He is chairman of Leyvik House , which publishes and sells books, in Yiddish and other languages, and serves as a Yiddish cultural center in Tel Aviv, housing Israel’s Yiddish Writers Union. Born in Argentina in 1945 and raised in a Yiddish speaking home, Galay moved to Israel in 1965. In this interview, he talks about many of his life experiences an...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT : A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June 10, 2023, 7:30 PM ET - virtual and in person. Details at: circleboston.org/arts/ See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/esia-friedman-part-2 Air date: May 31, 2023...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr
Encore from our archive, from 2017, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT : A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June 10, 2023, 7:30 PM ET - virtual and in person. Details at: circleboston.org/arts/ See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/itzchak-kin-shvues-yom-yerusholayim-shulman-and-cycowicz-trump-in-israel Air date: May 24, 2023...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Interview with Elena Luchina (עלענאַ לוטשינאַ), who is the Yiddish instructor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, discussing her interesting background and current career at one of the leading Yiddish-language and Jewish-studies programs in the United States. Originally from Moscow, Yelena received her PhD in linguistics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has taught Yiddish at U. Mich. since 2019. For more info, see Elena’s U. Mich. faculty page or follow Elena’s Instagram,...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min
We observe יום העצמאותּ Yom Haatsmaut with Avremi Zaks, whom we reached in Jerusalem, Israel, today: Avremi Zaks is the host of Kan Yiddish , which is sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel , and which 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 here: https://www.kan.org.il/radio/program.aspx/?pr...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Ben Lesser , a Holocaust survivor born in Cracow in 1928, describes his many ordeals and nearly miraculous survival of the Holocaust as a boy, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to liberation in 1945. Ben founded and runs, with his family, the The ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation , dedicated to preserving the memory and spreading awareness of the Holocaust. He published his memoir Living a Life That Matters: from Nazi Nightmare to American Dream in 2012, and it’s available for purchase...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Happy Passover! אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח! Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop ( Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor Mary Erlich ), co-sponsor of Boston’s 2023 In-Person and Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of Yom HaShoah , Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 2:00PM Eastern. Info and registration here: https://www.jcrcboston.org/event/annu...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Happy Passover! אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח! Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop ( Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor Mary Erlich ), co-sponsor of Boston’s 2023 In-Person and Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of Yom HaShoah , Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 2:00PM Eastern. Info and registration here: https://www.jcrcboston.org/event/annu...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Happy Passover! אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח! Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop ( Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor Mary Erlich ), co-sponsor of Boston’s 2023 In-Person and Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of Yom HaShoah , Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 2:00PM Eastern. Info and registration here: https://www.jcrcboston.org/event/annu...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Sholem Beinfeld , Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and a co-host of The Yiddish Voice , talks about the Ukraine war after one year This week’s featured interview is with Morris (Moyshe) Schwartz , a child of Holocaust survivors, a computer scientist, who speaks a very good Yiddish, talks about his personal and family history and his current life Thanks to our Pesach sponsors: Israel Book Shop , the League for Yiddish , the American Associatio...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 33 min
This week’s featured interview is with Perla Karney , discussing her journey from childhood in the Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA and had a career as a theater producer before taking on her current role as artistic director of the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Karney recently produced and co-starred in a video on the Yiddish Forward ( F...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Highlights: interview with Mary Ehrlich , a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh, a shtetl near Vilna. She talks about her childhood years up through the arrival of the Germans in 1941. We reached Mary by phone in late February, 2023. We plan to continue with a second interview with Mary in the next few weeks. from our archive: Purim with Miriam Libenson ז״ל, originally recorded and aired in the 1990’s. Music related to Purim: Binah Landau: Purim Lid Leyke Post: Purim , acco...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr
