Description

• Sebastian (Zekharye) Shulman recently joined KlezKanada, the
  annual Yiddish summer festival, as Executive Director and is a
  translator of Yiddish and Esperanto. See also
  • KlezKanada home page: https://klezkanada.org
  • Forverts article (in Yiddish): With a New Director KlezKanada
    Looks to the Future:
    http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/208420/with-a-new-director-klezkanada-looks-to-the-future/
• Also: an update on YIVO's Summer Program in Yiddish Language,
  Literature, and Culture by Academic Director Dovid Braun, who
  also talks about the companion Yiddish Civilization Lecture
  Series, which starts this coming Monday (June 24, 2019). See also:
  • YIVO Summer Program: https://summerprogram.yivo.org/
  • YIVO YIDDISH CIVILIZATION LECTURE SERIES, SUMMER 2019:
    https://summerprogram.yivo.org/LectureSeries
• Music
  • Daniel Kahn & Painted Bird: Di Arbeter Froyen
  • Sophie Milman: Shpatsir in Vald (from the CD Yiddish Glory: The
    Lost Songs of World War II, Executive Producer: Anna Shternshis)
• Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental
  track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air date: June 19, 2019