The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Cecille (Tsirl) Kuznitz, Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Director of Jewish Studies at Bard College, discusses her book YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation (Cambridge University Press), the first history of the YIVO Insitute. Originally published in 2014, the book recently came out in a new softcover edition in 2017. Further publication info is available here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/yivo-and-making-modern-jewish-culture-scholarship-yiddish-nation The interview was 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. Excerpts of the historic radio show that YIVO produced and broadcast in New York City on WEVD in the 1960's and '70's are presented at the end. These are courtesy of the recent "WEVD" podcast, a recent product of today's YIVO Institute and its Sound Archive. To find the podcast, search for "WEVD" in iTunes or any other podcast search system. YIVO website: https://www.yivo.org Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro/incidental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM performed by Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Air Date: Mar 7, 2018

אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים ****HAPPY PURIM! Air Date: Feb 28, 2018

אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים ****HAPPY PURIM! Air Date: Feb 21, 2018

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he studies ethnicity and politics, especially in former Communist countries, as well as Israeli politics, East European politics, and Jewish political thought and behavior. His most recent edited book is The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2016). The interview was 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. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Songs to conclude: Cantor Bela Herskowitz: Szal a Kakas Miar (Der Hun Kriet Shoyn) Norbert Horowitz: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter? Air Date: Feb 7, 2018

On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Soviet Army. This Jan 27, 2018, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. We are observing the day by re-airing portions of interviews with two survivors of the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Amram Deutsch is a survivor of Auschwitz from Sighet, now living in Los Angeles. Originally recorded and aired in 2015. Esti Shnek (maiden name Jahr) is a survivor of Auschwitz from Jasina, Czechoslovakia (which is now Yasinya, Ukraine), now living in Haifa. Originally recorded and aired in 2017. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Holocaust songs to conclude: Adrienne Cooper: Shtiler, Shtiler Chava Alberstein: Zog Nit Keynmol Norbert Horowitz: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter? Norbert Horowitz: Shtil, Di Nakht Iz Oysgeshternt Air Date: Jan 24, 2018

Shane Baker on Shloyme Mikhoels: we discuss the upcoming program by Kultur Kongres (http://congressforjewishculture.org) to honor the memory of the great Soviet Yiddish actor and director Shloyme Mikhoels on the 70th anniversary of his murder. On Thursday, January 18th, 2018 at 7 PM there will be a short lecture about the life of his theater, the GOSET, video presentations of materials with Mikhoels, readings from works about him, and presentations of musical and theatrical materials related to his life and work with the stars of stage and screen Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman. The event will take place at the JCC on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is free. (NOTE: pre-registration is required, and seating is highly limited.) Email kongres at earthlink dot net to register or get more info. Replay of our May 2015 interview with Anita Norich, Professor of English and Jewish Studies at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, about her book, Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century. Prof. Norich will give a lecture in Yiddish on the topic "Di kunst fun iberzetsn" ("The Art of Translating") this Sunday, Jan 21, 2018, at 1:30 PM at Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY. Event info on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1843334362624673/ Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro instrumental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM performed by Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Air Date: Jan 17, 2018

This is a special Yahrtzeit ("Yortsayt", or first-year memorial) program for Hasia Segal z"l, co-founder and co-host of the Yiddish Voice, whose who died one year ago, the night of January 16, 2017, which is 19 Teyves on the Jewish calendar. Therefore, her first yahrtzeit falls this week Saturday, January 6, 2018. Our program features new remarks by cohosts Meyer, Sholem, and Dovid on the occasion of Hasia's first yahrtzeit. The rest of the show is comprised of material presented in our special Shloyshim (30-day memorial) program presented last year on Feb. 15, 2017. Participants include Rivke Basman Ben-Haim, Hankus Netsky, Ruth Shulman, Esther Ritchie, Iosif Lakhman (z"l), Dovid Braun, Sholem Beinfeld, and Mark David. Rivke Basman Ben-Haim, a world-renowned Yiddish poet and a good friend of Hasia's, presents a new, original poem that she composed specially for this occasion. Hankus Netsky is the founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and a leader in preserving and reviving Yiddish music, language, and culture. Shulman and Ritchie are Hasia's daughters. Lakhman was a regular participant on the Yiddish Voice for over a decade. Sadly, he himself passed away in June 2017. Braun, Beinfeld, and David are regular participants on the Yiddish Voice. Original air date: Jan. 3, 2017 Photo: Dovid Braun and Hasia Segal z"l, 1990's, West Roxbury, MA Photo: Sholem Beinfeld and Hasia Segal z"l, 2003, Brookline, MA

Bella Bryks-Klein spoke about Vos-Ven-Vu, her monthly guide to Yiddish happenings in Israel, as well as several of her many other activities related to Yiddish language and culture, in Israel, New York, and even Poland. Boris Sandler talks about his new Yiddish web journal Yiddish Branzhe (https://yiddishbranzhe.com), which recently launched. Sandler says particularly wants to provide a showcase for younger writers and for Soviet-Yiddish writers who might otherwise be forgotten. From our archive: Hasia Segal interviews Motl Geyzer, editor of a Moscow Jewish newspaper, from October 1996 The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho 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: December 27, 2017

Basically a repeat of our Dec 8, 2017 show featuring an interview with Luzer Twersky, but with a new Israel Report by Adam Gruzman, courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at yiddish.forward.com.

Saul Noam Zaritt is an assistant professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in Jewish literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and he is the founding editor of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (ingeveb.org). We reached him by phone at his office in Cambridge, MA. The interview was 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. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Hanukkah greetings were presented by our lovely friends Motl Murstein, Sholem Beinfeld, and Dovid Braun. Hanukkah Music: Bruchas (Hanukkah blessing #1) by Ben Gailing, from Oy Chanukah (by The Klezmer Conservatory Band) Blessing of the Candles (Brochot) (Hanukkah blessing #2) by Moishe Oysher, from "The Moishe Oysher Chanukah Party" Shehechiyonu by David Kusevitsky, from "50 min with David Kusevitsky" Mo-oz Tsur by Eli Lipsker's Children's Choir and Orchestra, solo by Avremel Friedman, from "Sing Original Chassidic Melodies" Haneiros Hallolu (We Kindle These Candles) by Seymour Silbermintz & The Boys, from "Sing With Seymour" Borukh Ate Zingt der Tate by Judith Clurman (conductor) with Essential Voices USA, from "Cherished Moments: Songs of the Jewish Spirit" Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl by Lori Cahan-Simon, words and music by Mikhl Gelbart, from "Chanukah is Freylekh! A Yiddish Chanukah Celebration. Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me: Volume Two" Kh'bin a Dreydl by Pripetshik Singers with Binyumin Schaechter as music director, words and music by Beyle Schaechter Gottesman, from "Fli, Mayn Flishlang" Chanuke O Chanuke by Martha Schlamme, words and music by Mordkhe Rivesman, from "Sings Jewish Folk Songs" Akht Likhtlekh by Pripetshik Singers, with with Binyumin Schaechter as music director, words and music by Beyle Schaechter Gottesman, from "Fli, Mayn Flishlang" "O, Ir Kleine Lichtelech" by Sidor Belarsky with Vladimir Heifetz as music director, words by Morris Rosenfeld, from "Chanukah Festival of Songs" Air Date: December 13, 2017

Luzer Twersky grew up speaking Yiddish in a Chassidic home in Boro Park but left that life behind as a young adult, cutting practically all ties with his family and community. He now works as an actor in film, television, and theater, performing both in Yiddish- and English-speaking roles. Twersky appears as one of the three subjects of the documentary One of Us, recently released on Netflix, which chronicles his and two others' break from Chassidic life. Currently, he is performing on the Yiddish stage in New York in the role of Sam Feinschreiber in "Awake and Sing!" (Yiddish title: "Vakh Oyf Un Zing"), written by Clifford Odets and translated into Yiddish by Chaver Paver. The play is being presented by the New Yiddish Rep theater company at New York's 14th Street Y in Union Square, with performances Wednesday through Sunday until Dec 24. Related: About Luzer Twersky: Website: http://www.luzertwersky.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/twersky Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ltwersky/ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3872496/ About the film "One of Us": IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7214842/ One of Us web site: https://lokifilms.com/one-of-us/ One of Us trailer, published by Netflix, on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uBPn5oQNutI About the play "Awake and Sing"/"Vakh Oyf Un Zing" by New Yiddish Rep: Article "Returning 'Awake and Sing!' to Its Yiddish Roots": https://www.tdf.org/articles/1790/Returning-Awake-and-Sing-to-Its-Yiddish-Roots Article "New Yiddish Rep to Stage Clifford Odett's 'Awake and Sing'" (in Yiddish) in the Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/206777/new-yiddish-rep-to-stage-clifford-odetts-awake-and/ New Yiddish Rep website: http://www.newyiddishrep.org/ 14th St Y Tickets and Info: https://14streety.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S36000004qPjZEAU The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at yiddish.forward.com. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro music: Drei Dreidele and Happy Chanukah, sung by Cantor Moishe Oysher with chorus and orchestra, from the album The Moishe Oysher Chanukah Party with Abraham Ellstein as musical director Air Date: De...

Noah Barrera has become a serious activist on the Yiddish scene in New York City, where he has been a writer for Yiddish publications, worked in three Yiddish theaters, taught Yiddish language classes, and given talks in Yiddish. Our interview took place last August at the Yidish-Vokh, the week-long Yiddish retreat held each summer and sponsored by Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish (https://yugntruf.org). Barrera was able to attend the Yidish-Vokh thanks to his successful "gofundme" campaign (see: https://www.gofundme.com/Noyekh-YidishVokh), and there he taught a workshop on Yiddish sex vocabulary based on his research in the archives of the YIVO Institute. From our archives: Miriam Libenson Z"L: a talk in honor of Hanukkah, first aired on the Yiddish Hour in 1993. The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at yiddish.forward.com. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro music: CHANUKO OY CHANUKO, sung by Cantor Jacob Barkin with chorus directed by Sholom Secunda Air Date: Novermber 29, 2017

Daniel Galai wrote about the sorry recent demise of the daily Yiddish-language broadcast in Israel in his recent article in the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), titled (in translation) "Troubling Fate For Israeli Yiddish Radio". The article is here: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/204522/troubling-fate-for-israeli-yiddish-radio/ We reached Daniel Galay by phone in Israel. Daniel Galay is Chairman of Leyvik House (http://www.leyvik.org.il/), the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel, as well as a composer and pianist. (This interview originally aired Jun 18, 2017.) Hy Wolfe -- actor, singer, co-president of the Hebrew Actors' Foundation -- talks about recent developments with the organization and his vision for its future. (This interview originally aired on Aug 23, 2017.) The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at yiddish.forward.com. For Thanksgiving we played the historic "Interview with the Turkey", written and performed by the late great radio host, actor, and cantor Ben Gailing. In honor of the 9 yortsayt of our friend, Mrs. Gertrude Brand, we played music by her late husband, the late great concert violinist Percy Brand, as heard on the Ben Gailing show some time in the late 1990's Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro instrumental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM performed by Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Air Date: Novermber 22, 2017

Eitan Kensky is Director of Collections at the Yiddish Book Center ((yiddishbookcenter.org)) as well as chairman of the board of In Geveb, the online journal of Yiddish studies ((ingeveb.org)), which he cofounded. Previously, he was the preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in Jewish studies. The interview was jointly conducted by Mark David and Sholem Beinfeld. We interviewed Eitan at Sholem's home in Cambridge, MA, in Oct 2017. Additional info: (https://ingeveb.org/people/eitan-kensky) Mike Burstyn is a veteran American-Israeli actor and singer, who has also performed world wide on the Yiddish stage, having begun performing as a child in the famed Burstein family of actors. He recently wrote, directed, and produced the new Israeli feature film Azimuth, a drama that takes place at the end of the Six-Day War. The film was recently screened at the Los Angeles Israel Film Festival. We reached Mike by phone in Los Angeles yesterday. Additional info about Mike: (http://www.mikeburstyn.com/Bio.htm); and about the film Azimuth: (http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/films/azimuth/) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Novermber 15, 2017

Alexander (Sender) Botwinik discussed the recently released CD of Yiddish art songs composed by his father, the Vilna-born Montreal composer David Botwinik, with lyrics by various Yiddish poets, and featuring vocal performances by internationally acclaimed opera singers Lisa Willson, John Packard, and Ian DeNolfo, as well as 2 bonus songs performed by the late world-renowned tenor Louis Danto. The CD is called From Holocaust to Life, and is a companion to the book of the same name published by the League for Yiddish (www.leagueforyiddish.org) in 2010 containing 56 original musical compositions by David Botwinik, 15 of which are found on the new CD. For further info: Botwinik Music web site: http://botwinikmusic.com CD Baby web page for "From Holocaust to Life": https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/davidbotwinik Article about the CD (in Yiddish) in the Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/202984/new-album-of-songs-by-david-botwinik/ The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at yiddish.forward.com. We got sad news that Itzhak Luden, who was the long-time editor of Lebns-Fragn, the Yiddish Bundist journal in Israel. We played a short excerpt from his 2014 Yiddish Voice interview with a reading from his last book. Koved zayn ondenk! Music: Di Yunge Mame: Lisa Willson, soprano; lyrics: Avrom Sutzkever; music: David Botwinik Men Ruft Mikh Milyon: Ian DeNolfo, tenor; lyrics: Shmerke Kaczerginsky; music: David Botwinik Kum, Yeshayes Kholem: Lisa Willson, soprano; lyrics: M. M. Shaffir; music: David Botwinik Der Letster Zumer: John Packard, heldentenor; lyrics and music: David Botwinik Di Litvishe Shtetele: Louis Danto, tenor; lyrics: Joseph Jaffe; music: David Botwinik Shalom Shalom Yisroel performed by Cantor Sholom Katz Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Novermber 8, 2017

Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was recently published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. She is currently finishing a book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, which will be published with Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators (forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. In Spring 2018, Elissa will be a Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center. Sholem Beinfeld led these interviews with Professors Samuel Kassow and Elissa Bemporad, who, along with numerous other academic experts, will soon take part in the YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917 Bonus podcast: some of the interviews could not be included in the broadcast due to time limitations. This is a bonus podcast with material that could not be included in the original broadcast on Novermber 1, 2017.

Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland. Kassow was born in 1946 in a DP-camp in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up speaking Yiddish. Kassow attended the London School of Economics and Princeton University where he earned a PhD in 1976 with a study about students and professors in Tsarist Russia. He is widely known for his 2007 book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, has won numerous awards, and has lectured widely. Sholem Beinfeld led these interviews with Professors Samuel Kassow and Elissa Bemporad, who, along with numerous other academic experts, will soon take part in the YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917 Bonus podcast: some of the interviews could not be included in the broadcast due to time limitations. This is a bonus podcast with material that could not be included in the original broadcast on Novermber 1, 2017.

Professors Samuel Kassow and Elissa Bemporad, along with numerous other academic experts, will soon take part in the YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917 We reached them by phone today for interviews that take up practically the whole hour. (And then some: there are bonus podcasts with even more!) Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland. Kassow was born in 1946 in a DP-camp in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up speaking Yiddish. Kassow attended the London School of Economics and Princeton University where he earned a PhD in 1976 with a study about students and professors in Tsarist Russia. He is widely known for his 2007 book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, has won numerous awards, and has lectured widely. Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was recently published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. She is currently finishing a book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, which will be published with Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators (forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. In Spring 2018, Elissa will be a Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center. The interviews were conducted primarily by Sholem Beinfeld, co-editor-in-chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Bonus podcasts: some of the interviews could not be included in the broadcast due to time limitations, so check for bonus podcasts for more of each interview. Music: Di Shvue, anthem of the Bund, performed by a youth choir led by Zalmen Mlotek Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Novermber 1, 2017

Ari Hershkowitz, one of the three subjects of the film One of Us, now showing on Netflix and in select theatres, which shows the struggles of young people leaving their insular New York Chassidic-Jewish community. See also: One of Us website: https://lokifilms.com/one-of-us/ Zvi Gitelman, professor of political science at University of Michigan, in an interview from 2009. Gitelman and numerous other academic experts will soon take part in the YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917Conference Music: Di Kozakn: words and music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, performed by Meyshke Alpert; Rusishe Sher (vintage klezmer), performed by Abe Schwartz Orchestra Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: October 25, 2017

Raphael Finkel, Professor of computer science at University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, in Lexington, KY, interviewed at the Yidish-Vokh in August 2017, discussed the vast collection of Yiddish resources he maintains online, largely with software he created, such as a searchable Yiddish-English dictionary and a searchable archive of the complete works of the writer Sholem Aleichem. Professor Finkel's Yiddish resources web page is online here: https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html See also Prof. Finkel's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, discussed Beyle: The Artist and Her Legacy, a a documentary short film currently in production of which she is producer and co-director. The film is about Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the late Yiddish activist poet, and artist. A kickstarter campain is currently underway to fund the film. See: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yiddishbookcenter/beyle-the-artist-and-her-legacya-yiddish-book-cent Dovid Braun, who was and remains active in Beyle's extended Yiddish neighborhood, participated in the interview. Music: Zumerteg: performance, words, and music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman; Harbstlid: performed by Janet Leuchter and Meyshke Alpert, words and music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: October 18, 2017

NOTE: repeat of last week (Oct. 4, 2017) except for music at end: last three numbers were replaced by the last two numbers shown below for music. Gut Yontef, Gut Yor! We thank those who have pledged or made financial contributions to the Yiddish Voice during the past year. (Repeated from last week.) We recall the names of Yiddish Voice friends, supporters, and participants who died during the past year. (Repeated from last week.) Rav Itzchak Kin: a few questions about Succos. (Excerpt repeated from last week.) Rav Myer Loketch: Succos: Di 4 Minim (The 4 Species) (Repeated from 2007.) Miriam Libenson z"l: Succos and Simchas Torah (Repeated from the early 1990's) Music: Suki Berry, et al: A Sukele; Mordche Kershman: Fun Geshem Kayn Gelt Iz Nito; Itzhak Perlman and the Klezmatics: Simkhes Toyre Time; Malavsky Family: Hoshano 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) Air Date: October 11, 2017

We thank those who have pledged or made financial contributions to the Yiddish Voice during the past year. (Repeated from last week.) We recall the names of Yiddish Voice friends, supporters, and participants who died during the past year. (Repeated from last week.) Rav Itzchak Kin: a few questions about Succos. (Excerpt repeated from last week.) Rav Myer Loketch: Succos: Di 4 Minim (The 4 Species) (Repeated from 2007.) Miriam Libenson z"l: Succos and Simchas Torah (Repeated from the early 1990's) Music: Suki Berry, et al: A Sukele; Mordche Kershman: Fun Geshem Kayn Gelt Iz Nito; Sidor Belarsky: Sisu Vesimkhu (in Hebrew); Abe Schwartz Orchestra: Simkhes Toyre Nokh Di Hakofes (vintage klezmer/instrumental) Yidisher Orchestra: Simchas Torah (vintage klezmer/instrumental) 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) Air Date: October 4, 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

We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. Le Shona Toyve! ‏לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו‏ Tania Lefman (repeat from last week), Holocaust survivor, recalls both her happy childhood in prewar Koretz, Poland, as well as her struggle to stay alive after the German takeover in 1941. Mrs. Lefman is a founding and active member of the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston. Miriam Libenson (repeat, first aired on the Yiddish Hour, WBRS, in 1993): a discussion of Rosh Hashona/Yom Kippur, and featuring some of Miriam's own original poems Music: Eastern-European style music of the High Holiday season in Yiddish and Hebrew by cantors Goldie Malavsky, Josef Rosenblatt Music: Harbstlid: Words and Music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Sung by Janet Leuchter and Meyshke Alpert Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Ending instrumental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM from Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (with Itzhak Perlman performing and Dov Seltzer conducting): Tradition Air Date: September 20, 2017

We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. Le Shona Toyve! לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו Rav Avrohom Marmorstein (repeat): a discussion of the High Holidays, and also a little about the Rabbi, his background, and about Yiddish. Rav Marmorstein is the director of Mehadrin Kashrus on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. For info: http://www.vaad.org/new-york-manhattan/mehadrin-kashrus/. (Note: shortened, edit version of an interview recorded and first aired in 2015.) Tania Lefman, Holocaust survivor, recalls both her happy childhood in prewar Koretz, Poland, as well as her struggle to stay alive after the German takeover in 1941. Mrs. Lefman is a founding and active member of the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston. Music: Eastern-European style music of the High Holiday season in Yiddish and Hebrew by cantors Sholem Katz, Josef Rosenblatt, & Mordechai Herschman Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Ending instrumental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM from Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (with Itzhak Perlman performing and Dov Seltzer conducting): Tradition Air Date: September 13, 2017

Mindl Cohen: part two of our interview with the Editor-in-Chief of In Geveb, the online journal of Yiddish studies (ingeveb.org), as well as Harvard University's new Yiddish teacher. Part 1 aired last week. Special thanks to Sholem Beinfeld, Wash. Univ. professor emeritus of history and co-chief editor of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English dictionary, for help conducting the interview. Rav Avrohom Marmorstein: a discussion of the High Holidays, and also a little about the Rabbi, his background, and about Yiddish. Rav Marmorstein is the director of Mehadrin Kashrus on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. For info: http://www.vaad.org/new-york-manhattan/mehadrin-kashrus/. (Note: shortened, edit version of an interview recorded and first aired in 2015.) Music: Eastern-European style music of the High Holiday season in Yiddish and Hebrew by cantors Samual Malavsky (& Family), Berele Chagy, Leibele Waldman, & Moishe Koussevitzky Air Date: September 6, 2017