The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Dovid Braun and Itzik Gottesman discuss the upcoming Yiddish New York festival of Yiddish languge and culture. Yiddish linguist Braun will be presenting an advanced workshop on Yiddish dialects in Yiddish during Yiddish New York. Gottesman, a PhD and internationally recognized scholar of Yiddish language and culture, is a producer of Yiddish New York. Info: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com Libe Gritz talks about the upcoming concert by the Boston Workmen's Circle's A Besere Velt chorus at Yiddish New York. The concert titled "Sing Out, Fight Back! – A Besere Velt Chorus!" takes place SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2:45 – 4:00pm At the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Libe (also known as Linda) Gritz is a leading member, often a soloist, of the chorus, which sings almost entirely in Yiddish. She is a long-time member and leader of the Boston Workmen's Circle, active in Yiddish language and culture as well as social justice. Info web site for A Besere Velt: http://circleboston.org/community-chorus Info web site for Yiddish New York: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/ Yiddish New York special-events page with info on the concert: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/programming/special-events-and-evening-programs/ (This interview originally aired on Dec 5 2017.) Music: A Besere Velt, Boston Workmen's Circle Yiddish Chorus: Yugnt Himen (Youth Hymn), lyrics by Shmerke Kaczerginski, music by Basye Rubin - from Youtube.com: https://youtu.be/GBIALyIbk2s Shmuel Rudenski, Lea Dulitzkaya, and Cast: Tog Ayn, Tog Oys, Libst Mikh Sertse, Vayt fun Mayn Liber Heym, from the record ‏אַ פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך (A Fidler Afn Dakh) (Columbia Records, Israel, 1965) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: December 12, 2018

Libe Gritz talks about the upcoming concert by the Boston Workmen's Circle's A Besere Velt chorus at Yiddish New York. The concert titled "Sing Out, Fight Back! – A Besere Velt Chorus!" takes place SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2:45 – 4:00pm At the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Libe (also known as Linda) Gritz is a leading member, often a soloist, of the chorus, which sings almost entirely in Yiddish. She is a long-time member and leader of the Boston Workmen's Circle, active in Yiddish language and culture as well as social justice. Info web site for A Besere Velt: http://circleboston.org/community-chorus Info web site for Yiddish New York: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/ Yiddish New York special-events page with info on the concert: https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/programming/special-events-and-evening-programs/ Rav Myer Loketch has died, ברוך דיין אמת. From 2006 to 2009 he contributed many radio presentations on Jewish holidays for the Yiddish Voice. Tonight we re-air his presentation for Hanukkah 2006. We plan a shloyshim memorial program in Rav Loketch's memory on our Dec. 19th broadcast. Important show note: the date for the Radio Shloyshim in memory of Myer Loketch has been changed from Dec. 12, as was previously announced on this broadcast and elsewhere. The new date is Dec. 19, 2018. We regret any inconvenience. Music: Ben Gailing and Boy: Chanuka Brokhes Moyshe Oysher: Blessing of the Candles (Brochot) Dovid Kusevitsky: Shehechiyonu Seymour Silbermintz & The Boys: Haneiros Hallolu - Chanuko Eli Lispsker's Children's Choir and Orchestra: Mo-oz Tsur Sidor Belarsky: Boruch Ato A Besere Velt, Boston Workmen's Circle Yiddish Chorus: Yugnt Himen (Youth Hymn), lyrics by Shmerke Kaczerginski, music by Basye Rubin - from Youtube.com: https://youtu.be/GBIALyIbk2s Jacob Barkin: Chanuko Oy Chanuko Essential Voices USA: Borukh Ate Zingt der Tate Pripetshik Singers: Kinder, Haynt Iz Khanike Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: December 5, 2018

Henry Carrey talks about the upcoming concert he's performing in, YIDDISH RADIO LIVES! A Musical Tribute to Ben Gailing at 120 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hankus-netskys-hebrew-national-salvage-tickets-51815656022); his mother Leyke Post, a Yiddish actress, singer, and radio personality; meeting Ben Gailing; his mother's reunion with Gailing at KlezKamp 1998; how he learned Yiddish; his late brother Dovid Carrey, a noted Yiddish actor and singer; his own commercial Yiddish recordings. Rav Myer Loketch has died, ברוך דיין אמת. From 2006 to 2009 he contributed many radio presentations on Jewish holidays for the Yiddish Voice. Tonight we re-air his presentation for Hanukkah 2006. We plan a shloyshim memorial program in Rav Loketch's memory on our Dec. 19th broadcast. Important show note: the date for the Radio Shloyshim in memory of Myer Loketch has been changed from Dec. 12, as was previously announced on this broadcast and elsewhere. The new date is Dec. 19, 2018. We regret any inconvenience. Music: Leyke Post: Yiddish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn (Yiddish Sounds So Beautiful), accompanied by Rubin Ossofsky Henry Carrey: Tu beshvat Henry Carrey: Feter Shneyer Henry Carrey: Purim Shpiler Leyke Post: Oryentalishe Romants Sidor Belarsky: Khaneke Brokhes David Putterman: Haneros Halolu S'vivon Pierre Pinchik: Mo-oz Tzur Jacob Barkin: Chanuko oy Chanuko Essential Voices: Borukh ate zingt der tate Pripetshik Singers: Kh'bin a dreydl Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: November 28, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving! אַ פֿריילעכן דאַנק-טאָג! Yankl-Perets Blum discusses various aspects of his involvement with Yiddish. Blum is a Yiddish teacher, linguist, polyglot, board member of Yugntruf (yugntruf.org), developer of YiddishPop.com, developer of "Yiddish Typer" (Chrome extension). Yiddish Typer web page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yiddish-typer/higlebidpnhccabnhankdoiiccnnfkko?hl=en Hankus Netsky, Klezmer music star, discusses his upcoming show YIDDISH RADIO LIVES! A Musical Tribute to Ben Gailing at 120. The concert takes place Sunday, December 2, 2018, at 1:00 pm at Temple Beth Israel, 25 Harvard Street, Waltham, MA. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, contact the Temple office via our website at http://tbiwaltham.org or by telephone at 781-894 5146. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/340209126529177/ Eventbrite ticket web site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hankus-netskys-hebrew-national-salvage-tickets-51815656022 Music: Ben Gailing singing his song Ikh Hob Shoyn Aza Mazel accompanied by Rubin Ossofsky in 1932. Leah Carrey (Leyke Post), the mother of Henry Carrey (who will be performing with Hankus Netsky), singing Yidish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn accompanied by Rubin Ossofsky Percy Brand: Rumenish (by Kalman) Percy Brand: Hebrew Melody and Dance Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: November 21, 2018

**מיר טרויערן נאָך די קדושים פֿון דער פּיטסבורגער שחיטה Sholem Beinfeld: Words of Condolence on Pittsburgh Massacre Ber Kotlerman: Interview on the writer Der Nister, the subject of his forthcoming lectures in New York and Los Angeles Cantor Moyshe Taube: Interview about the Pittsburgh massacre with the famed cantor and Holocaust survivor living in Squirrel Hill Music: Cantor Sholom Katz: El Moley Rachamim Cantor Avrohom Brun: Vos Darfn Mir Veynen Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: October 31, 2018

Sholem Berger discusses and reads from his latest book of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, "Vi lebt zikh dortn? Lider un proze-bashraybungen", available here: http://bit.ly/bergerpoetry Special guest co-hosts Sholem Beinfeld and Leah Shporer Leavitt are live in studio for special cultural presentations. Yiddish songs performed by the late cantor and folksinger Abraham Brun from his album on Folkways Records Songs of the Ghetto Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: October 24, 2018

Vivi Lachs discusses her book Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 (Wayne State University Press) and music she has created based on historic Yiddish songs from Whitechapel. Lachs will be giving a talk on Sunday Oct 21 2018 at the Boston Workmen's Circle. For information on Lachs's book Whitechapel Noise: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/whitechapel-noise For information on Lachs's talk at Workmen's Circle: https://www.facebook.com/events/244709186216978/ Special guest Boris Sandler is interviewed about his late friend and colleague Kobi Weitzner, the journalist and radio presenter for the Yiddish Forward (Forverts) who died unexpectedly last month. See also: אַדיע, קאָבי…: Sandler's tribute (in Yiddish) in Yiddish Branzhe 13: https://yiddishbranzhe.com/2018/10/01/%D7%A0%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%9F-%D7%A4%D6%BF%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%9D-%D7%A8%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%A8-13/ לזכּרון קאָבי ווײַצנער ע″ה צו זײַנע שלושים (Tribute to Koby Weitzner a Month After His Passing): article in Forverts (in Yiddish) by Dov-Ber Kerler: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/212175/tribute-to-koby-weitzner-a-month-after-his-passing/? Music: Tracks from CD Metropolitan Klezmer: Traveling Show: Uncle Moses' Wedding Dance Ot Azoy Neyt a Shnayder Miracle Melody: Hasidic Nign / Poor Man's Tune Tracks from CD Katshanes: Don't Ask Silly Questions: London Hot Zikh Ibergekert Freg Keyn Katshanes Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: October 17, 2018

Kolye Borodulin discusses his recent return to Birobidzhan, the town famed as the center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia where he was born and raised. Kolye also discusses the upcoming Yiddish language classes offered by the Workmen's Circle, available both in-person and online. For further info: https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/ The film Who Will Write Our History will be shown at the forthcoming Boston Jewish Film Festival in November 2018. We are airing an excerpt of our interview with the author of the book upon which the film was based, Sam Kassow, previously aired Apr 25 2018. For further info: http://www.bjff.org/ Historian Sam Kassow discusses Emanuel Ringelblum and the "Oyneg Shabbos Archive", the subject of his book "Who Will Write Our History" and the new film based on his book. The film, by director/producer Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg, has recently been shown in preview form in Los Angeles and Warsaw and is expected to be released sometime in 2018. For information about the film see: whowillwriteourhistory.com Music: Wolf Krakowski: Varshe Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: October 3, 2018

Sabina Brukner discusses Yiddish Fiddler, that is, the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, now playing at the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City, where Sabina serves officially as Literary Manager and unofficially as Yiddish language coach. For info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Greetings from our good friends and frequent contributors Sholem Beinfeld, Dovid Braun, and Mordkhe Murstein for the New Year Holidays (from last year's show) From our archives: interview with Miriam Libenson o"h, our late frequent guest contributor and poet, who died in 2004, discussing personal memories Succos and singing the song "A Sukele a Kleyne", based on a poem by Avrom Reisen called In suke. Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Music: Mordkhe Hershman: Af Bri Moyshe Ganchoff: Geshem and Mo Oshiv Khor Gezelshaft HaSomir: Di Sukele Shmuel Rudenski, Lea Dulitzkaya, and Cast: Tog Ayn, Tog Oys, from the record ‏אַ פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך (A Fidler Afn Dakh) (Columbia Records, Israel, 1965) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: September 26, 2018

Previously aired Oct 10, 2016 We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! ‏ מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! For Succos and Simchas Torah: Miriam Libenson z"l (from the '90's) and Myer Loketch צו לאַנגע יאָר (from 2006) Air Date: October 10, 2016 AND September 19, 2018

Previously aired Sep 27, 2017. We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! ‏ מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! We thank those who have pledged or made financial contributions to the Yiddish Voice during the past year. We recall the names of Yiddish Voice friends, supporters, and participants who died during the past year. Rabbi Itzchak Kin: questions and answers for the ten days of repentance from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. Music: "Un'sane Tokef" (a part of the Musaf service for both Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur) performed by Shmuel Malavsky & Family and by Josef Rosenblatt (excerpt: "K'vakoras") Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Additional background/incidental music: Cantor Gershon Sirota: Keil Moleh Rachamim ("God full of compassion", remembrance prayer for the departed); Goldie Malavsky: Zochreinu L'Chayim; Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym Air Date: September 27, 2017 AND September 12, 2018

Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt joins regular host Meyer (Mark David) as co-host for a lively "Erev Rosh Hashona" program live from WUNR studios in downtown Boston, joined by phone by regular contributors Dovid Braun and Sholem Beinfeld as well as special guest Rav Avrohom Marmorstein. Leye gave a report on the 2018 Yugntruf Yidish-Vokh retreat she recently attended and provided info on upcoming Yiddish offerings at the Boston Workmen's Circle. Dovid Braun reported on his recent experience teaching at YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program 2018, the 50th anniversary of that program. Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein, director of Mehadrin Kashrus, joined by phone to discuss and give his greetings for Rosh Hashona 5779. Sholem Beinfeld gave a reading about Rosh Hashona Music: Leybele Waldman: Der Nayer Yor Metropolitan Klezmer: Shpil Du Fidl, Shpil, from the CD Traveling Show Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Air Date: Sep 5 2018

Interviews with two cast members of the smash-hit Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof, known as Fidler afn Dakh in Yiddish, which has just had its run at the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene in New York extended by two months. Info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Michael Yashinsky played the roles of Mordkhe the innkeeper as well as Nokhem the beggar from the beginning of the current production of Fidler Afn Dakh until around the broadcast date on Aug 30 2018. We wish Michael success in his new role teaching Yiddish at University of Michigan. Michael Yashinsky's web site: https://yashinsky.com/ Daniel Kahn played the role of Perchik, the revolutionary intellectual, from the beginning of the current production of Fidler Afn Dakh until just few days before this interview was broadcast on Aug 30 2018. He is a Berlin-based Yiddish actor, singer, and songwriter, who founded and leads the klezmer band Painted Bird (http://paintedbird.net) Music: Leybele Waldman: Der Nayer Yor (excerpts) Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler Afn Dakh) Cast: Youtube highlights (https://youtu.be/X7yryjpzUv8) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Air Date: Aug 29 2018

Interview with Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at University of Toronto. The interview is presented in memory of 12 August 1952, when thirteen Jews were executed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, five of them Yiddish writers Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, Leib Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson. Dr. Shternshis was executive producer of the recently released CD Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, based on her research on Moisei Beregovsky's archive, which the Soviet authorities confiscated in 1947, arresting Beregovsky a short time later. The Yiddish Glory CD contains songs written in Yiddish by Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II. The CD's songs have music thoughtfully composed by Shternshis's collaborator Psoy Korolenko. There is a large ensemble of talented musicians and singers on the CD. Key musical personnel include Psoy Korolenko, composer and singer; Sophie Milman, singer; and Sergei Erdenko, musical director, violinist, and singer. The CD includes a booklet with high quality English and Russian translations. Dr. Shternsis and Psoy Korolenko have recently toured extensively in the past year in support of the CD, bringing these once-lost songs to an ever widening audience. For more information on the Yiddish Glory CD: https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/yiddishglory/ Anna Shternshis is also author of two books, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: an Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2017). The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Beinfeld served as principal consultant on the film "Partisans of Vilna" (credited as Solon Beinfeld). He was senior consultant and historian to the Kovno Ghetto Exhibition project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and consultant to the Museum on the Ghetto archive holdings in the Lithuanian State Archives in Vilnius. Songs from the CD Yiddish Glory: Misha tserayst Hitlers Daytchland Babi Yar Yoshke fun Ades Shpatsir in Vald Afn Hoykhn Barg Kazakhstan Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Aug 8 2018

Kan Yiddish radio hosts Avremi Zaks and Mikhoel Felsenbaum and דאָס ייִדישע קול host Mark David interviewed each other about their Yiddish radio shows. Kan Yiddish, sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel (https://www.yiddish-rashutleumit.co.il/), 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/?progid=1136 See also their Facebook group: Yiddish Radio Forverts Kol news report by Jacob (Kobi) Weitzner, courtesy of the Yiddish Forward, on the web at: yiddish.forward.com Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: July 25 2018

Interview with Debra Caplan discussing her book Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Music: Excerpts from David Tamkin’s opera The Dybbuk, inspired by the play first and most famously performed by the Vilna Troupe. Track: Nigun of the 7 Circles. From the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: Jewish Operas: Volume 1. Di Frosh and Feter Elye, performed by Noah Nachbush, the late actor who performed as a member of the Vilna Troupe in the world premiere of Der Dibek (The Dybbuk) in 1920, from the album Gems of Yiddish Poetry and Folklore: LP No. 330 Cantor Mordechai Herschhman: Vyo Vyo Ferdelach Forverts Kol news report by Jacob (Kobi) Weitzner, courtesy of the Yiddish Forward, on the web at yiddish.forward.com Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: June 27 2018

Interview with Zalmen Mlotek discussing the forthcoming production Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler afn Dakh) by the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene. Previews begin July 4, 2018. Info: http://nytf.org Twitter: @folksbiene Interview with Avrom Nowerstern discussing the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears and the author Sholem Aleichem generally (abbreviated and repeated from a 2011 broadcast) Music: excerpts from Fidler afn Dakh album on Columbia Records, with the original Israeli Yiddish cast, featuring Shmuel Rudenski, et al. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: June 13 2018

Interview with writer Miriam Hoffman discussing her recently published memoir A Breed Apart: Reflections of a Young Refugee which describes her fascinating life, from childhood in Sibera and Germany through adulthood in New York, raising a family in Yiddishist society in New York and finding success as a columnist and feature writer for the Yiddish "Forward" Newspaper ("Forverts"), as a Yiddish educator at Columbia University, and as a playwright, including cofounding the Joseph Papp Yiddish Theatre. The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Music: Sarah’s Lullaby & Hagar’s Lament, performed by Shirim Klezmer Band, from the CD Of Angels and Horseradish, sung by Rosalie Gerut (Sarah) and Betty Silberman (Hagar), lyrics by Itzik Manger and Miriam Hoffman, from the play Lider fun Gan Eydn (Songs of Paradise), based on the poetry of Itzik Manger, play written by Miriam Hoffman and Rena Berkowicz Borow. Rav Myer Loketch discusses Shvues and Megilas Rus (Repeated from 2007.) Music: Shvues, performed by Cantor Louis Danto, Composer: Yoel Engel, Author: Shimon Shmuel Frug Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: May 16 2018

Dr. David E. Fishman, author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017). Fishman's book tells the incredible story of the "Paper Brigade" of the Vilna Ghetto, who rescued thousands of books, manuscripts, documents, and objects of art from the murderous Germans seeking to both loot and destroy the Jews' cultural heritage. After the war, an effort was needed to save the collection from neglect or possible destruction at the hands of the officialdom of Soviet Lithuania. The book acquaints the reader in depth with the deeds and fates of the five key heroes of the Paper Brigade -- Shmerke Kaczerginski, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Rachela Krinsky, Herman Kruk, and Abraham Sutzkever -- as well as those of the chief villain, the Nazi book looter Johannes Pohl. The Book Smugglers won the National Jewish Book Award in 2017 for a work on the Holocaust. Additional info is available at the publisher's web page, here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo44307467.html The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Beinfeld served as principal consultant on the film Partisans of Vilna (credited as Solon Beinfeld). He was senior consultant and historian to the Kovno Ghetto Exhibition project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and consultant to the Museum on the Ghetto archive holdings in the Lithuanian State Archives in Vilnius. Music: The song Vilna is heard "thematically" at several points throughout the program and played nearly in full at the end. Words by Efraim-Leyb Wolfson, music by Alexander Olshanetsky, performed by the Klezmer Conservatory Band, musical direction and piano by Hankus Netsky, sung by Judy Bressler, from the Record Album Yiddishe Renaissance. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: May 2 2018

Historian Sam Kassow discusses Emanuel Ringelblum and the "Oyneg Shabbos Archive", the subject of his book "Who Will Write Our History" and the new film based on his book. The film, by director/producer Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg, has recently been shown in preview form in Los Angeles and Warsaw and is expected to be released sometime in 2018. For information about the film see: whowillwriteourhistory.com Report from Warsaw by Kobi Weitzner, brought to you by the Yiddish Forward, on the web at yiddish.forward.com Songs of the Holocaust, Partizans, and Ghettos to close: performer: song Rochelle Horowitz: Yisrolik Shomon Yisraeli: Zog Nit Keynmol Norbert Horowitz: Shtil di Nakht Norbert Horowitz: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter Khane Cooper: Shtiler, Shtiler Wolf Krakowski: Varshe Chava Alberstein: Friling Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Apr 25 2018

Interview with Gitu Cycowics (nee Friedman), an Israeli, a resident of Jerusalem, also an Auschwitz survivor Israel Report by Adam Gruzman, brought to you by the Yiddish Forward, on the web at yiddish.forward.com From Israel's Kan national broadcast authority's "Kan Yiddish" department: Shaye Perelzon's Yiddish radio presentation for Yom Haatsmaut Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Israel/Yom Haatsmaut songs throughout: performer: song Seder Melodies (Choir): Hatikvoh David Esheth: Yerusholayim, Shtot fun Gold Sidor Belarsky: Yam Lid Barry Sisters: Exodus Shalom Katz: Shalom Shalom Yisroel Shalom Katz: Yerusholayim Air Date: Apr 18 2018

Interview with Marek Edelman, who was the last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to have lived, from 1996 is re-aired. Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis, discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising generally as well as certain historical controversies. Mark (Motl) Murstein of Brookline, MA, originally from Poland, presents his own Yiddish translation of Zydom Polskim (Tsu Di Poylishe Yidn) by the late Polish poet Wladyslaw Broniewski, which was written in honor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Leon Weinstein and Natalie Gold: a Jewish father who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of '43 and Warsaw Uprising of '44 recalls reuniting with his infant daughter, who'd been hidden in a convent, after the war. At the time of the interview, in 1913, he was 100 years old, and he's since passed away. His daughter, Natalie Gold, works as a psychologist and is active in the survivor and Jewish community in Los Angeles. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Song: Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glick, music by Dimitri Pokrass, three recordings performed by: Emil Decamoron and his Orchestra; Shomon Yisraeli; and Sidor Belarski Air Date: Apr 11 2018

Rav Izchak Kin: LeKoved Pesach Izchak Kin, our esteemed guest rabbi for Pesach this year, teaches the class "Ein Yaakov", in Yiddish, a half hour before Mincha nearly every week day of the year at the venerable Shaarei Tefila Synagogue in Los Angeles. We are thankful to have him on our show. He not only answers our Shayles (questions) about Pesach, but sang us one of over 400 songs he knows as a Modzhitzer Khosid. Enjoy! Greetings and ads from many friends, sponsors, and organizations. Most are new for this year, but three are by and in memory of: Hasia Segal, Iosif Lakhman, and Max Gelerman -- Z"L. Special thanks to our sponsors: Israel Book Shop, The Butcherie Kosher Supermarket, BLER Travel, and Cheryl Ann's of Brookline Bakery Numerous joyous and happy Passover songs. A short excerpt from Rav Myer Loketch's 2007 Pesach presentation, talking about Pesach in Boston's Blue Hill Avenue Shul (formally known as Adas Yeshurin) community, including Moes Chitim campains in days of yore. (Adas Yeshurin wiki - historical info) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Mar 28 2018

Happy Passover! אַ כּשרן און פֿרײלעכן פּסח! Air Date: Mar 21 2018

Happy Passover! אַ כּשרן און פֿרײלעכן פּסח! Air Date: Mar 14 2018