Pesach with Rav Izchak Kin, Gitu Cycowicz, et al

• 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/annual-yom-hashoah-commemoration/
  • League for Yiddish, New York, NY, (Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Chair of the Board)
  • Leah Shporer-Leavitt, Newton, MA, co-host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול
  • Sholem Beinfeld, Cambridge, MA, co-host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול
  • Dovid Braun, Leonia, NJ, co-host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול
  • Yankele Bodo, Tel Aviv, Israel, actor and singer (from 2016)
  • Leser Maimon, Brooklyn, NY, Holocaust survivor and leader of Young Israel of Mill Basin
  • Eli Grodko, New Millford, NJ, friend of the show
  • Boston Workers Circle, Brookline, MA (Yiddish committee member Linda (Libe-Reyzl) Gritz)

Featured speakers:

• Rabbi Izchak Kin, Los Angeles, CA: a Modzitzer chossid, born in Jerusalem, he taught Torah and Talmud in Yiddish in Los Angeles for more than 40 years
• Gitu Cycowicz, Jerusalem: Gitu – a/k/a Giselle (Gita) Cycowicz (née Friedman) – who was born in 1927 in the town of Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, then part of Czechoslovakia, now in Ukraine, survived Auschwitz and other camps, later starting a new life in the USA, and eventually getting her PhD in psychology. In her later years, she moved to Israel and then worked for decades for AMCHA (https://amcha.org), helping with the psychological needs of her fellow survivors.

Music:

• Moishe Oysher: Got Iz Eyner (Mu Asapru)
• Lori Cahan-Simon and Meyshke Alpert: Zog Maran
• Sidor Belarsky: Shvimt dos Kestl Afn Nil
• Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Podcast release dates: April 3 and 4, 2023

Air Date: April 5, 2023