Best Yiddish Voice Podcasts (2024)

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Indigenous Voices of the Americas 15:17

24d ago15:17

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Betto Arcos reports from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DCBy BBC Radio 3

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Erev Yom Kippur with Teitelbaum + October 7 Anniversary with Zaks, Galay, Trinh 1:48:44

1M ago1:48:44

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אַ גמר חתימה טובֿה! און אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר! Highlights: Rabbi Itzik-Boruch Teitelbaum (Monroe, NY), known as Der Pshiskher Rov, with a vort for erev Yom Kippur. We reached him by phone at his home in Monroe on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 Interviews with Israelis about Oct. 7, one year on. Avremi Zaks the host and producer of the weekly Israeli Yiddis…

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Erev Rosh Hashona with Novershtern, Sharfstein, Teitelbaum, et al 1:25:42

1M ago1:25:42

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אַ כּתיבֿה וחתימה טובֿה! Highlights: Avrom Novershtern (Israel) Professor Emeritus of Yiddish Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. We reached him by phone on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Eli Sharfstein (Israel) writer and poet. We reached him by phone in Greece, where he was stranded due to cancelations of flights to Israel, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 202…

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Erev Rosh Hashona with Sutzkever Poetry Translated and Read by Richard Fein and Sholem Beinfeld 1:07:36

2M ago1:07:36

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This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with a poetry reading by Richard Fein and Sholem Beinfeld. אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער - לשנה טובֿה Highlights: Author and translator Richard J. Fein (Yiddish name: Ruvn-Yankev), along with his friend, col…

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Flamenco 15:34

2M ago15:34

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Betto Arcos is in Madrid, Spain exploring the rich and diverse world of Flamenco.By BBC Radio 3

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Erev Rosh Hashona with Moshe Waldoks, Henry Slucki, et al 1:20:14

2M ago1:20:14

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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 Moshe Waldoks and Holocaust survivor Henry Slucki. אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערערלשנה טובֿה Highlights: Interview with Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, whose biographical one-ma…

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Perl Teitelbaum, Teacher and Singer; Hy Wolfe, Actor and Singer 1:05:09

3M ago1:05:09

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This week, interviews with Perl Teitelbaum and Hy Wolfe. We spoke with them in person at 2024 Yugntruf Yidish-Vokh in Copake, NY, on Aug. 21, 2024. Paula (Perl) Teitelbaum is a Yiddish language at Arbeter Ring, Yivo Institute, and elsewhere. She talked about a new technique she's been using for teaching Yiddish by watching films. A Yiddish singer w…

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Dovid Braun, Zumer-Program Academic Director; Miriam Libenson z"l (1995): Tisha B'ov 1:03:15

3M ago1:03:15

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This week, an interview with Dovid Braun, talking about the Yivo Bard Zumer-Program and a few related matters. Dovid serves as Academic Director for the summer program, which recently concluded, and year-round as Yivo's Academic Director for Yiddish. And we hear from our archive (1995) Miriam Libenson on Tisha B'Ov , which falls this year on the ni…

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Arieh Hecht: Patient Advocate; Nokhem Lerner: Zumer-Program Teacher 1:17:21

3M ago1:17:21

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This week, Arieh Hecht, a patient advocate in Los Angeles, talks about his life as a child of Holocaust survivors originally from Transylvania (Hungary during WWII) and his work as a patient advocate. We spoke with Arieh in person in Los Angeles on July 4, 2024. We begin with a report from the Yivo-Bard Zumer-Program by Nokhem Lerner, who's been a …

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Yiddish Tango 21:28

4M ago21:28

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Polish singer Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk is our guide to the lost world of pre-WW2 Yiddish Tango. She explores its origins as it arrived from Argentina in the 1920s, to its then beating heart in Warsaw - and the many famous Jewish composers, who perished during the Holocaust. And we hear how Olga and others have been working to revive the music over …

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Pnina Sharf: Survivor from Poland, Marek Gaysinskiy: Zumer-Program Report 45:34

4M ago45:34

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Highlights: Mark ("Marek") Gaysinskiy reports from the Yivo-Bard Zumer-Program; Pnina Sharf, a resident of Los Angeles and a Holocaust survivor from Poland, talks about her life experiences; from Boston's Yiddish past: a performance by the late Cantor Gregor Shelkan, performing a song about what will happen when Meshiekh (the Messiah) comes (record…

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Beinfeld, Glasser, Turner: The Jewish-Communist Milieu in Post-war Poland; Tara Neuwirth: Yivo's 2024 Zumer-program 1:14:09

4M ago1:14:09

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Highlights: A report from the Yivo-Bard Yiddish Summer Program by student Tara Neuwirth, who has attended several times beginning in 1983. This year's Zumer-program kicked off last week and seems off to a good start. We spoke to Tara by phone on July 10, 2024. We hope to hear more from other students and teachers from this and other Yiddish summer …

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New Orleans 13:53

4M ago13:53

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Betto Arcos takes us to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for a celebration of cajun and zydeco musicBy BBC Radio 3

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Itel Landau 50:38

5M ago50:38

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Meet Itel Landau (maiden family name: Brettler), a Holocaust survivor originally from Vișeu de Sus (Felsővisó in Hungarian, אויבערווישעווע in Yiddish), a shtetl in Transylvania (prewar Romania, Hungary during WWII, now Romania), discussing her life — before, during, and after the Holocaust. Itel was born into a Hassidic family, the Brettlers, who s…

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India: Goa 9:57

6M ago9:57

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Sigmund de Souza is our guide to the Portuguese-influenced mando tradition of GoaBy BBC Radio 3

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Sarah Moskovitz: The Song Remains 1:03:15

6M ago1:03:15

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This week, Yiddish poetry lovers are in for a treat: an interview with Sarah Traister Moskowitz with her reading of poems in the collection „דאָס ליד איז געבליבן“ ("The Song Remains") along with her English translations. Sarah is the translator of the collection of poems Dos Lid is Geblibn, or The Song Remains, on the new website thesongremains.org…

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Marvin Zuckerman: Yiddish Language and Culture and Bundism 1:09:02

6M ago1:09:02

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This week we have a new interview with Marvin Zuckerman, who grew up in the Yiddish-speaking milieu of Jewish Labor Bund in Bronx, New York. He became a professor of English at a Los Angeles college and created the well-regarded Yiddish primer Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages and several other books in the field of Yiddish. He translated from the Yi…

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Peru 18:54

6M ago18:54

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Betto Arcos on the playing styles and instruments of Lima's Afro-Peruvian traditionBy BBC Radio 3

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Yom HaAtzmaut with Burstyn, Trinh, Sharfstein, Zaks 2:04:18

6M ago2:04:18

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This week we observe Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) talking with Mike Burstyn, Miriam Trinh, Eli Sharfstein and Avremi Zaks. Mike Burstyn is a distinguished actor and singer known for his roles in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English theater and film across Israeli, American, and international stages. Recently, he starred in the German comedy dram…

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Yom HaShoah: Hungarian (Carpathian) Holocaust Survivors Mel Mermelstein (2008), Zoli Langer (2019), Rokhl Zicherman (2019) 1:14:29

7M ago1:14:29

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This week, for Yom HaShoah, which falls this year on May 6, we present past interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary as we mark the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, 80 years ago. After a brief intro and announcement of Boston's 2024 community Hazkure, we hear: Mel Mermelstein ז״ל We had a short but memo…

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Pesach with Kesselman, Teitelbaum, Deutsch 59:48

7M ago59:48

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This week, Pesach greetings and words of wisdom from Rabbi Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Rabbi Moshe Kesselman, and Holocaust survivor Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, as well as greetings from many of our cohosts, friends, and sponsors, as follows: Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Gre…

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Cantor Herschel Fox 1:09:22

7M ago1:09:22

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This week, Cantor Herschel Fox, long-time chazzan at Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue in Los Angeles and veteran of the Cantorial world as well as the Yiddish stage, and even Yiddish radio. The interview is filled with stories and anecdotes covering many aspects of his life and his illustrious career, including close working relationships with such leg…

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Purim with Viswanath, Pollak, Wolfe, Londner, Beinfeld, Lieberman-Reich 1:02:51

8M ago1:02:51

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Happy Purim !! אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים Part 1: Jokes and humor for Purim told by Libby Pollak, Sholem Beinfeld, Sheila (Sheyndl) Lieberman-Reich, Sheldon (Shulem) Londner, and Hy Wolfe. Part 2: Arele Schaechter Viswanath discusses his Google Doc "אַ בלעטל פּורים־מאַטעריאַלן", which the פֿאָרווערטס/Forverts/Yiddish Forward described as "Lively Yiddish P…

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Argentina: Cosquín Festival 15:16

9M ago15:16

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Betto Arcos reports from the Cosquín Folk Festival in ArgentinaBy BBC Radio 3

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Nathan Gipsman, Survivor; Biskowitz, Bach: Farbindungen 2024; Borodulin: Yiddish Classes 1:07:33

9M ago1:07:33

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This week, interview with Holocaust survivor Nathan Gipsman, originally from Będzin (Bendin), who recently celebrated his 99th birthday; Alona Bach and Sarah Biskowitz cover Farbindungen 2024, the third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference, taking place online from February 18 – 19th, 2024; Kolya Borodulin announces the Yiddish classes of…

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Remembering Dovid Lenga: His 2023 Interview 1:01:14

9M ago1:01:14

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Last week, we learned the sad news that David (Dovid) Lenga has died at the age of 96. He was buried in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 2024. Los Angeles survivor and community leader Harry Davids said of him, "David was a survivor of Dachau and Auschwitz. He frequently spoke at the museums, synagogues and schools, and his presentations were known for thei…

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Vicky Ash-Shifriss on "Silent Tears" CD 56:53

10M ago56:53

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In observance of International Holocaust Rememberance Day (Jan. 27) we're listening to and discussing Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, the acclaimed 2023 CD with new music and songs based on poetry and other writing by several women who are, or were, Holocaust survivors in Toronto. These songs recall their terrible and traumatic experiences du…

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Remembering Avrohom Fuchs: His 2015 Interview; Miriam Libenson: Tu BeShvat (Replay) 1:04:53

10M ago1:04:53

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Last week, we received via Facebook the sad news that Avrohom Fuchs has died at the age of 99. He was buried in Jerusalem on Jan. 15, 2024. In his memory, we're airing part of an interview recorded in Jerusalem on Jan. 2, 2015, and originally aired Jan. 21, 2015. Fuchs, who survived the Holocaust, including Auschwitz and Ebensee, was a scholar of t…

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Finland:Sámi yoiking 13:58

10M ago13:58

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Sebastian Bergholm takes us to the far north exploring the rich tradition of Sámi yoikingBy BBC Radio 3

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Mikhl Yashinsky: Di Psure Loyt Khaim 1:35:22

11M ago1:35:22

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Highlights: Mikhl Yashinsky discusses his new Yiddish-language plan די בשׂורה לויט חיים (The Gospel According to Chaim / Di Psure Loyt Khaim), which is based on the true-life figure Chaim Einspruch, who translated the New Testament into Yiddish. When Einspruch tried to publish his book during the early 1940's, he was refused by every Yiddish printe…

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Sholem Beinfeld: Analyzing Israel's War; Remembering Hershl Hartman: His 2021 Interview 1:10:15

11M ago1:10:15

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Highlights: Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of The Yiddish Voice and Professor of History, Emeritus, of Washington University, St. Louis, gives an analysis of Israel's war with Hamas in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre. Hershl Hartman passed away last week, Monday, December 11, 2023, a few days after his 94th birthday. In his memory we are reairing our…

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Berele Messinger: ZAKA in Israel in the aftermath of Oct 7 59:55

12M ago59:55

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Interview with Berele Messinger, an Israeli member of ZAKA who was on the scene in Kibbutz Be'eri the day after the October 7 massacre. We reached him by WhatsApp on Nov. 29, 2023. Music: Moshe Stern: A Gezang Tzu Yisroel Rina Gordon: Far Nakht In Yerusholayim (words: Zalman Shazar) Moshe Stern: Undzer Eygn Land Moshe Stern: Ver Bistu Mentsh Moyshe…

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Survivors Cycowicz, Deutsch, Zisblatt, Altmann on Israel & Antisemitism; freygl gertsovski 1:15:10

1y ago1:15:10

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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. Intervi…

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Sharfstein, Bryks-Klein, Shifris, Trinh: Massacre and War in Israel 1:41:22

1y ago1:41:22

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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 אי…

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Daniel Galay: Massacre and War in Israel 1:28:41

1y ago1:28:41

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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 דע…

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Sholem Beinfeld, Avremi Zaks: Massacre and War in Israel 1:27:22

1y ago1:27:22

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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 …

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Chol Hamoed Succos with Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Kolya Borodulin, Hy Wolfe 2:08:51

1y ago2:08:51

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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 …

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Colombia: Petronio Alvarez Festival 15:11

1y ago15:11

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Betto Arcos reports from Cali's Petronio Alvarez Festival (of Afro-Colombian music)By BBC Radio 3

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Greetings and Music Erev Succos; Best of Succos, etc. (2019) 1:15:23

1y ago1:15:23

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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…

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Greetings and Music Erev Yom Kippur; Rabbi Moshe Kesselman: Rosh Hashona, etc. (2022) 1:27:07

1y ago1:27:07

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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, Hol…

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Erev Rosh Hashona with Avrohom Marmorstein, et al 1:16:24

1y ago1:16:24

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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, געבענ…

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Mordechai-Tzvi Solomon, Eli Grodko, Rosh Hashona 1:23:16

1y ago1:23:16

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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 צוהערערלשנה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivor…

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Lilye Weitzman & Yoyne Sidman: New Yiddish Songs from Boston 1:03:49

1y ago1:03:49

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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…

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Ansonia Records 14:50

1y ago14:50

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Betto Arcos is our guide to the classic American Latin label Ansonia RecordsBy BBC Radio 3

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Nick Underwood: Yiddish Paris; Dovid Braun: Yiddish Studies at YIVO: an Update 59:13

1y ago59:13

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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 intervie…

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12 August 1952 Remembered, with Yelena Shmulenson and Boris Sandler 1:17:12

1+ y ago1:17:12

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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 …

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Encores: Nathan Kasdan (2013-2014) and Miriam Libenson (1990's) 1:09:33

1+ y ago1:09:33

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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-…

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Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on Words for Armed Uprising; Rav Izchak Kin on Personal History 1:05:45

1+ y ago1:05:45

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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 pe…

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Sholem Beinfeld: Uprising in Russia; Avremi Zak and Meyer Hirshman: Israeli Society and Politics 1:09:26

1+ y ago1:09:26

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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 K…

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Avrom Novershtern: Yiddish in Literature and His Personal Life 1:00:02

1+ y ago1:00:02

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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 …

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