The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

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 Topics discussed: About Beys Sholem Aleykhem - history, accomplishments, current activities (בית שלום עליכם) (Find on Facebook; Find on the Web). Yiddish writer Chaim Grade - an introduction. Women Writers Controversy - in 2021, Novershtern gave two lectures for YIVO, which resulted in some controversy with two online discussions in response. See links below. Novershtern's early home life in Argentina, and what brought him to Israel. Novershtern - Women Writers Controversy - Timeline and Links: Monday Jul 12, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Yiddish Women Writers (Part 1) with Avraham Novershtern (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/3wl81swZO2A Monday July 19, 2021: Vaybertaytsh podcast episode: Episode 54: Re: "Yiddish Women Writers" | ייִדישע שרײַבערינס / July 19, 2021 http://www.vaybertaytsh.com/episodes/2021/7/18/episode-54-re-yiddish-women-writers-hjhes Monday Jul 19, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Yiddish Women Writers (Part 2) with Avraham Novershtern (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/66iydt6dzg0 Thursday Jul 22, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Women Writers in Yiddish Literature with Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/p2p_gt0EBIQ Music and Comedy Recordings, mostly in honor of July 4th, America's Independence Day: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Mandy Patinkin: American Tune (Words&Music by Paul Simon) Seymour Rexite: Battle Hymn of the Republic in Yiddish Cantor Ari Brown: America Medley Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus: Amerike di Prekhtike Michel Rosenberg: Getzel at a Baseball Game Clara Gold: Telebende Furt Kein Amerika Moishe Oysher & Florence Weiss: Chasidic in America Air Date: June 28, 2023

Highlights: interview with Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming at Arbeter Ring (circle.org), talking about the Summer 2023 Yiddish course offerings currently starting or about to start online now. interview, part 2, with Mary Ehrlich, a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh (Giedraiciai in Lithuanian), a shtetl near Vilna (and closer to the Vilkomir). In Mary Ehrlich's first interview she talked about her childhood years up through the arrival of the Germans in 1941. In this, her second, interview Mary spoke of her later life, starting with the German takeover of Lithuania, including the lifesaving role played by a Lithuanian mother and her children, who hid Mary and her parents for most of the war, saving their lives. About ten years ago, Mary reunited with two of these children whose mother had saved her life, which was widely covered in the press. Here's a NY Post article: https://nypost.com/2011/11/24/holocaust-survivor-reunites-with-lost-friends-at-jfk/ Here's a Jerusalem Post article: https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-features/holocaust-survivor-to-be-reunited-with-her-saviors For this interview we reached Mary by phone at her home in the Boston area on June 20, 2023. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro instrumental music: Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym Air Date: June 21, 2023

Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with Fathers Day music at the end. See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/nechama-netali-gonen Air date: June 14, 2023

interview with Daniel Galay (דניאל גלאי), an Israeli composor, musician, translator, writer, educator, and Yiddish community leader and activist. He is chairman of Leyvik House, which publishes and sells books, in Yiddish and other languages, and serves as a Yiddish cultural center in Tel Aviv, housing Israel's Yiddish Writers Union. Born in Argentina in 1945 and raised in a Yiddish speaking home, Galay moved to Israel in 1965. In this interview, he talks about many of his life experiences and achievements as well as current interests and projects, including his recent Yiddish Intonation Youtube series, teaching Yiddish intonation for English-speaking Yiddish students, and about the "Ashkenazi Identity movement" he promotes in Israel and online. He also discusses Yiddish in Israel and offers comments on the recent book Yiddish in Israel, whose author, Rachel Rojanski, discussed the book on The Yiddish Voice/דאָס ייִדישע קול in 2021. This interview took place in Tel Aviv on June 4, 2023 Music: Michael Gaysinsky (Михаил Гайсинский): Es keytlt zikh di tsayt (lyrics by Boris Sandler, music by Alex Meif and Michael Gaysinsky) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: June 7, 2023

Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June 10, 2023, 7:30 PM ET - virtual and in person. Details at: circleboston.org/arts/ See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/esia-friedman-part-2 Air date: May 31, 2023

Encore from our archive, from 2017, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June 10, 2023, 7:30 PM ET - virtual and in person. Details at: circleboston.org/arts/ See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/itzchak-kin-shvues-yom-yerusholayim-shulman-and-cycowicz-trump-in-israel Air date: May 24, 2023

Interview with Elena Luchina (עלענאַ לוטשינאַ), who is the Yiddish instructor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, discussing her interesting background and current career at one of the leading Yiddish-language and Jewish-studies programs in the United States. Originally from Moscow, Yelena received her PhD in linguistics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has taught Yiddish at U. Mich. since 2019. For more info, see Elena's U. Mich. faculty page or follow Elena's Instagram, @SimpleYiddish. The interview took place over Zoom on May 9, 2023, and was led by Sholem Beinfeld, regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis. From our archive: Miriam Libenson ז״ל discusses the upcoming holiday Shvues. Recorded and originally aired on The Yiddish Voice in the 1990's. Music: Chava Alberstein: Afn Pripetshik Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: May 17, 2023

We observe יום העצמאותּ Yom Haatsmaut with Avremi Zaks, whom we reached in Jerusalem, Israel, today: Avremi Zaks is the host of Kan Yiddish, which is sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel, and which 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 ייִדיש ראַדיאָ. Music: Barry Sisters: Exodus Dovid Eshet: Yerusholayim Shtot fun Gold (lyrics and music by Naomi Shemer) Shloimele Rothstein: In Erets Yisroel (music and lyrics by J. Rumshinsky) Air date: April 26 2023

Ben Lesser, a Holocaust survivor born in Cracow in 1928, describes his many ordeals and nearly miraculous survival of the Holocaust as a boy, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to liberation in 1945. Ben founded and runs, with his family, the The ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, dedicated to preserving the memory and spreading awareness of the Holocaust. He published his memoir Living a Life That Matters: from Nazi Nightmare to American Dream in 2012, and it's available for purchase in various formats at his foundation's website. Now in his mid-90's, Ben is still very active as a Holocaust educator, telling his story for groups around the world, mostly on Zoom in recent years. Music: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Norbert Horowitz: Shtil di Nakht Khane Cooper: Shtiler, Shtiler Norbert Horowitz: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter Chava Alberstein: Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glick, music by Dimitri Pokrass Matele Friedman ז״ל:Es Brent (Words and music by Mordkhe Gebirtig; recorded byThe Yiddish Voice on Jan 1, 2020) Abraham Brun: Vos Darfn Mir Veynen Dudu Fisher: Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn Air Date: April 19, 2023

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) Hasia Segal ז״ל, late co-host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול (recorded in 2012) Iosif Lakhman ז״ל, late co-host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול (recorded in 2014) Featured speakers: Rabbi Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Kiryas Joel, NY, also known as the Pshisker Rebbe, gives a greeting for Pesach and a short and interesting bit of Torah learning. Recorded Chol Hamoed Pesach during the day of Apr 11, 2023. Pinchas Gutter, Toronto, Canada, gives his account of surviving the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Majdanek. Previously aired on The Yiddish Voice in 2022. Music: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Cantor Moyshe Koussevitsky: Chad Gadyo Cantor Sholom Katz: El Moley Rachamim Norbert Horowitz: Shtil di Nakht Khane Cooper: Shtiler, Shtiler Norbert Horowitz: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter Chava Alberstein: Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glick, music by Dimitri Pokrass Podcast release date: April 11, 2023 Air Date: April 12, 2023

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

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 (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 Hy Wolfe, New York, NY, Professional actor, singer, and director; Executive Director of CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organization); Co-President of Hebrew Actors Foundation Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, Holocaust survivor originally from Kimyat, a village in the Carpathian Mountains, author of A Holocaust Survivor: In The Footsteps Of His Past Rabbi Myer Loketch ז״ל, then of Brookline, MA, and in the clergy of Young Israel of Brookline, MA, from the Yiddish Voice archive: Pesach, Yiddish, and Bikur Cholim -- visiting the sick (originally recorded and aired in 2007) Music: Malavski Family: Ho Lachmo Anyo and Ma Nishtano/Di Fir Kashes Moishe Oysher: Dayenu Moishe Oysher: Kiddush for Pesach Yosef Moshe Kahana: L'Chaim Kindergarten Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: March 29, 2023

Sholem Beinfeld , Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and a co-host of The Yiddish Voice, talks about the Ukraine war after one year This week's featured interview is with Morris (Moyshe) Schwartz, a child of Holocaust survivors, a computer scientist, who speaks a very good Yiddish, talks about his personal and family history and his current life Thanks to our Pesach sponsors: Israel Book Shop, the League for Yiddish, the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston, presenting the 2023 Yom HaShoah observance April 16, 2023, 2pm, at Faneuil Hall Music: Various songs for Passover by various performers Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: March 22, 2023

This week's featured interview is with Perla Karney, discussing her journey from childhood in the Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA and had a career as a theater producer before taking on her current role as artistic director of the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Karney recently produced and co-starred in a video on the Yiddish Forward (Forverts)'s YouTube channel. Starring the famed Yiddish actor Mike Burstyn, it's titled "A Jewish deli experience with actor Mike Burstyn – in Yiddish!", and features unscripted Yiddish-language dialog as the two enjoy and discuss Jewish dishes together at Factor's Deli in Los Angeles. To find out more about Perla Karney, see her bio at UCLA Hillel: https://www.uclahillel.org/perla_karney_bio For Pesach: exclusively from The Yiddish Voice archive: Hasia Segal z"l: sings several Yiddish Pesach songs Myer Loketch z"l: radio talk on Pesach from 2008 Music: Sidor Belarsky: several songs from the album Seder Nights with Sidor Belarsky Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: March 15, 2023

Highlights: interview with Mary Ehrlich, a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh, a shtetl near Vilna. She talks about her childhood years up through the arrival of the Germans in 1941. We reached Mary by phone in late February, 2023. We plan to continue with a second interview with Mary in the next few weeks. from our archive: Purim with Miriam Libenson ז״ל, originally recorded and aired in the 1990's. Music related to Purim: Binah Landau: Purim Lid Leyke Post: Purim, accompanied by Rubin Ossofsky Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: A Gutn Purim Kapelye: Gut Purim, Yidn Lillian Lux: Vashtis Kloglid Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Purim-Shpilers Gadi Yagil: Di Elegye fun Fastrigose Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: March 1, 2023

Tonight's show aired just a couple of days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We present our second interview with Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, an Auschwitz survivor. The interview was recorded at his home in July, 2022. The previous interview is available here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/naftali-deutsch-auschwitz-survivor-for-yom-hashoah Naftali Deutsch was born in 1931 in the Carpathian mountain village Kimyat, Czechoslovakia, which is now in Ukraine. He is the author of A Holocaust Survivor: In The Footsteps Of His Past [Amazon link], his auto-biography. See also Naftali "Tuli" Deutsch, his page at Yad Vashem. 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: January 25, 2023

Our featured interview this week is with David (Dovid) Lenga, who recently turned 95, is originally from Łódź, Poland (לאָדזש), and now lives in Los Angeles. He survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz. He recently wrote an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on anti-semitism: As a Holocaust survivor, the most important thing I can do is share my story He frequently talks about his history as a survivor of the Holocaust at Holocaust Museum LA and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. We spent a time talking about these activities, as well as about many aspects of his very long and very interesting life. Music: Wolf Krakowski: Yeder Ruft Mikh Ziamele Leyke Post: Yidish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn Shifee Lovitt: Yiddish/Vaserl Tsimmes: Oyfn Pripetshik Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: January 4, 2023

Interview with Jeffrey Shandler, discussing his book Yiddish: Biography of a Language (Oxford University Press, 2020), which describes Yiddish from its origins to the present. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers and holds a PhD from Columbia University. He has had a big influence on Jewish studies, particularly for his concept of Yiddish as a "post-vernacular language", that is, despite the fact that Yiddish is no longer the everyday language of large numbers of Jews, except for certain Chassidic groups, it's widely taught, studied, and translated, and is generally the object of lively interest and affection. For further info on Shandler's book Yiddish: Biography of a Language at Oxford University Press: https://academic.oup.com/book/33481 For Shandler's academic home page at Rutgers: https://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/jeffrey-shandler The interview took place over Zoom on November 4, 2022, and was led by Sholem Beinfeld, regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis. Music: Leyke Post: Yidish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn Shifee Lovitt: Yiddish/Vaserl Tsimmes: Oyfn Pripetshik Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: December 7, 2022

Our second interview with Gennady Estraikh (first interview aired in March, 2022) discussing the war in Ukraine. Estraikh, who was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, is a professor at NYU who specializes in Jewish intellectual history, Yiddish language and literature, and Soviet Jewish history. He has written numerous books, academic papers, and journal and newspaper articles in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish, notably for the Yiddish Forverts. He served as managing editor of the famed Yiddish literary journal Sovetish Heymland from 1988 to 1991. His books include Yiddish Culture in Ukraine (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2016, in Ukrainian) and Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Academic Studies Press, 2020). The interview took place over Zoom on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday we present Interview with the Turkey, a monologue by Boston's late, great Yiddish radio host Ben Gailing, originally aired on his show Der Freylekher Kabtsen in the 1980's. Thanks to Hankus Netsky, Ben's producer and co-host, for supplying this recording. Music: Loyko: Yoshke fun Ades Mandy Patinkin: Take Me out to the Ball Game and God Bless America Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: November 23, 2022

Prof. Cecile (Tsirl) Kuznitz talks about the upcoming "Schaechter Conference", which she is chairing, sponsored by the League for Yiddish, JTS, and Columbia University. Info: League for Yiddish Rokhl Zicherman, a survivor of Auschwitz who grew up in Tybava, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains which was in Czechoslovakia before WWII, part of Hungary during the war, and is now in Ukraine, discusses her early life as well as deportation and survival in Auschwitz. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, also a Holocaust survivor. Music: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro instrumental music: Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym

Jessica Kirzane discusses her recent recent translations from Yiddish into English. She is perhaps best known for her translations of the late Yiddish writer Miriam Karpilove: Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020) and Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe (Farlag Press, 2022). Kirzane is a professor at the University of Chicago, teaching Yiddish language and literature. And she is the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. For further information see her website: jessicakirzane.com The interview took place over Zoom on October 6, 2022, and was led by Sholem Beinfeld, regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis. Music: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Outro instrumental music: Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym Air Date: October 26, 2022

אַ גוטן מועד Happy Succos! For Chol Hamoed Succos, we present two very special guests: Rabbi Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum of Monroe, NY, the Pshischer Rebbe, a descendant of several Polish Chassidic masters including the Yid Hakodesh of Peshischa, gives a shiur for Succos and also shares a nigun he composed himself. Kolya Borodulin, director of Yiddish classes at Arbeter Ring, talks about the latest Yiddish classes, with registration open now for classes starting October 19, 2022, as well as as some other things he's knowledgable about, such as his home town, Birobidzhan. We also share, for the last time this season, greetings from our friends and sponsors: Holocaust survivor Tania Lefman, on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, on behalf of the League for Yiddish - די ייִדיש-ליגע Eli Dovek ז"ל, proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009) Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of the Yiddish Voice and co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary Leye Shporer-Leavitt, cohost of the Yiddish Voice, Yiddish teacher and translator Music: Itzhak Perlman/The Klezmatics: Simkhes Toyre Time Ben Zion Shenker: Sisu V'Simchu Suki Berry, et al: A Sukele Mordechai Hershman: Af Bri, Fun Geshem Kayn Gelt Iz Nishto Moyshe Ganchoff: Geshem Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: October 12, 2022

Feature interview: Dovid Braun, academic director of Yivo Institute's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, discusses the ZumerProgram, Yiddish courses at YIVO, and Yiddish education generally, including the topic of "Chassidic Yiddish". Happy New Year! אַ גמר טובֿ! אַ גוט יאָר Greetings from our friends and sponsors Holocaust survivor Tania Lefman, on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, on behalf of the League for Yiddish - די ייִדיש-ליגע Eli Dovek ז"ל, proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009) Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of the Yiddish Voice and co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary Leye Shporer-Leavitt, cohost of the Yiddish Voice, Yiddish teacher and translator Music: Sholom Katz: Zochreinu L'Chaim Leibele Waldman: Der Nyer Yohr Moishe Oysher: Hayom Horas Olam (for Rosh Hashona after shofar blown) Mordechai Herschman: Al Chet Joseph Feldman: Der Nayer Yor Benjamin Siegel: A Din Toyre Mit Got (a/k/a Kaddish of Rabbi Levi-Yitzchok of Berditchev) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: September 28, 2022

Feature interview: Rabbi Moshe Kesselman of Congregation Shaarei Tefila in Los Angeles reflects with host Meyer on Rosh Hashona. Happy New Year! אַ גוט יאָר Greetings from our friends and sponsors Holocaust survivor Tania Lefman, on behalf of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, on behalf of the League for Yiddish - די ייִדיש-ליגע Eli Dovek ז"ל, proprietor of Israel Book Shop (from 2009) Max Gelerman ז"ל, late proprietor of The Butcherie (from 2005) Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of the Yiddish Voice and co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary Leye Shporer-Leavitt, cohost of the Yiddish Voice, Yiddish teacher and translator Music: Sholom Katz: Zochreinu L'Chaim Leibele Waldman: Der Nyer Yohr Moishe Oysher: Hayom Horas Olam (for Rosh Hashona after shofar blown) Mordechai Herschman: Al Chet Joseph Feldman: Der Nayer Yor Benjamin Siegel: A Din Toyre Mit Got (a/k/a Kaddish of Rabbi Levi-Yitzchok of Berditchev) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: September 21, 2022