Summer Programs Amid COVID-19 with Trinh, Matut, Schmitges, Viswanath, Wolfe

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 / מרים טרין - head of Yidish Ort, Yiddish teacher at both Yidish-YO and YIVO 2020 summer programs, Yiddish lit and language teacher at Hebrew U., editor of Afn Shvel [Jerusalem]

• Andreas Schmitges / אַנשיל שמיטקעס - Curator and Board member of Yiddish Summer Weimar (and of Other Music Academy) [Weimar]

• Diana Matut / דינע מאַטוט - one of the Yiddish teachers of Yiddish Summer Weimar [Weimar]

• Meena-Lifshe Viswanath / מינע ליפֿשע ווישוואַנאַט - Treasurer of Yugntruf, lifelong attendee of Yidish-Vokh, an active particpant in the planning of Yidish-Vokh in her role as member of Yugntruf’s board [Maryland]

• Music:

  • Leibele Waldman: Der Nyer Yohr
  • Theo Bikel: Di Yontevdike Teg
  • Shmuel Malavsky and Family: Unesanneh Tokef (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur Musaf)
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

• Thanks to our 2020 High Holiday sponsors!

  • Israel Book Shop https://www.israelbookshop.com/
  • The Butcherie https://www.butcherie.com/
  • Cheryl Ann’s Bakery http://cherylannsbakery.com/

Air Date: August 26, 2020