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The Levantini PodcastHighlights: ZenobiaWe've curated a special highlight version of the podcast for those in a hurry. You can listen to the full episode here. Haggai Olshanetsky, a historian and archaeologist focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman periods at the University of Warsaw, came back on the show to discuss a paper he authored in 2024 that re-examines Queen Zenobia’s relationship with Judaism and how she may have converted in order to support her political and military objectives. Zenobia ruled in Palmyra which is in modern day Syria during the 3rd century and she’s one of the most famous femal...2025-07-1518 min
The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastAdi Mahalel: Yiddish Language & Literature Scholar; Avremi Zaks: Latest on Israel's Wars
Adi Mehalel (עדי מהלאל) talks about teaching Yiddish language and literature at Univ. of Maryland and Yivo Summer Program and discusses the writers I. L. Peretz, the subject of his book The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism, and Hanan Ayalti, whose book Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine is forthcoming with Mehalel's translation and introduction. Interviewed in New York City via Zoom on July 2, 2025. Book links:
Boom and Chains: https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814351802/
The Radical Isaac: https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Radical-Isaac
Avremi Zaks (אבֿרהמי זאַקס), host of the Kan Yiddish (כאן יידיש) radio show in Israel, discus...2025-07-031h 29The Levantini PodcastZenobia - The Great Jewish Queen?Haggai Olshanetsky, a historian and archaeologist focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman periods at the University of Warsaw, came back on the show to discuss a paper he authored in 2024 that re-examines Queen Zenobia’s relationship with Judaism and how she may have converted in order to support her political and military objectives. Zenobia ruled in Palmyra which is in modern day Syria during the 3rd century and she’s one of the most famous female leaders in history.You can read Haggai's paper here.Send us a text2025-07-0137 minThe Levantini PodcastHighlights: Rethinking The Bar Kokhba RevoltWe've curated a special highlight version of the podcast for those in a hurry. You can listen to the full episode here. Haggai Olshanetsky is a historian and archaeologist focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman periods at the University of Warsaw. He came on the show to discuss his research arguing that the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome, otherwise known as the Bar Kokhba Revolt, may have had more than one leader, specifically Jewish veterans of the Roman army, and it was only later that Bar Kokhba assumed leadership of the revolt. Here is a li...2025-06-1314 minThe Levantini PodcastRethinking The Bar Kokhba RevoltHaggai Olshanetsky is a historian and archaeologist focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman periods at the University of Warsaw. He came on the show to discuss his research arguing that the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome, otherwise known as the Bar Kokhba Revolt, may have had more than one leader, specifically Jewish veterans of the Roman army, and it was only later that Bar Kokhba assumed leadership of the revolt. Here is a link to Haggai's article as well as links to previous episodes on the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the Diaspora Revolt.2025-06-1236 min
WDR Feature-DepotJiddischland – Eine verschollene OperettengeschichteLehár und Strauß sind Dauerbrenner auf den Bühnen. Wenig wissen wir dagegen über Abraham Goldfaden, Joseph Rumshinsky oder Alexander Olshanetsky. Auch sie haben Operetten geschrieben - jiddische!Die Wandertheater in den osteuropäischen Schtetl fliehen vor zaristischen Pogromen, Jiddische Operetten werden 1883 verboten. So entstehen weltweit jiddische Theater. In New York bildet sich an der Lower East Side ein ganzer Bezirk mit jiddischen Bühnen heraus, die Second Avenue. Eine Reise von rumänischen Weinlokalen nach New York über Aufbruch, Neuanfang, Geborgenheit und Fremde.Ein Feature von Sylvia Roth. Produktion WDR 20222025-06-0954 minWDR 3 KulturfeatureJiddischland – Eine verschollene OperettengeschichteLehár und Strauß sind Dauerbrenner auf den Bühnen. Wenig wissen wir dagegen über Abraham Goldfaden, Joseph Rumshinsky oder Alexander Olshanetsky. Auch sie haben Operetten geschrieben - jiddische!Die Wandertheater in den osteuropäischen Schtetl fliehen vor zaristischen Pogromen, Jiddische Operetten werden 1883 verboten. So entstehen weltweit jiddische Theater. In New York bildet sich an der Lower East Side ein ganzer Bezirk mit jiddischen Bühnen heraus, die Second Avenue. Eine Reise von rumänischen Weinlokalen nach New York über Aufbruch, Neuanfang, Geborgenheit und Fremde.Ein Feature von Sylvia Roth. Produktion WDR 20222025-06-0954 min
PassageJiddischland – eine verschollene OperettengeschichteDie Operetten von Lehár oder Strauß sind Dauerbrenner auf den europäischen Bühnen. Wenig wissen wir dagegen über Abraham Goldfaden, Joseph Rumshinsky oder Alexander Olshanetsky. Auch sie haben Operetten geschrieben – jiddische Operetten!
In den osteuropäischen Shtetls des ausgehenden 19.Jhds. von Wandertheatern aufgeführt, wurden die jiddischen Operetten auf der Flucht vor den zaristischen Pogromen in die ganze Welt verstreut. Rund um den Globus entstanden jiddische Theater. Z.B. an der Lower East Side in New York. Ein quirliger Treffpunkt für die Emigranten: Sie konnten dort in den Operetten aus der alten Heimat schwelgen, aber auch neue Stücke seh...2025-02-2854 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastRemembering Avrohom Fuchs: His 2015 Interview; Miriam Libenson: Tu BeShvat (Replay)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 the Jewish history of the Carpathian Mountains, as well as a travel agent and guide who led over 35 tours to the Carpathians for former residents and their descendents. He wrote a book on the city of Chust (now Khust, Ukraine) and surrounding towns...2024-01-221h 04The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastLilye Weitzman & Yoyne Sidman: New Yiddish Songs from BostonInterview 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 Songs from Boston), presented at the 2023 Yidish-Vokh, which took place earlier in August in Copake, NY, and was sponsored by the organization Yugntruf-Youth for Yiddish. These songs, as well as selected highlights from the workshop, were presented on this show. The four songs are (1) Levone-Mol by Lily Weitzmann; (2) In Hartsn Zol U...2023-08-311h 03The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastEfraim Kessler, 105-year-old born and raised in BilgorayThis show features an interview with Efraim (Froyim) Kessler, who, at age 105, is the oldest person ever interviewed on The Yiddish Voice. In the interview Kessler, who was born in Bilgoray, Poland, in 1916, recalls various aspects of his youth, including encounters with the Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe. He also recalls surviving the Spanish flu. (We learned after the interview that he also survived Covid-19.)
Efraim Kieslowicz was born and raised in Bilgoray (Polish spelling: Biłgoraj) on July 27, 1916, one of nine siblings. His father was a rabbi and a...2022-01-201h 04
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Tollans musikaliskaMusik och jiddischMusik och jiddisch - Vilka sjunger på detta språk och varför? Birgitta Tollan möter artister, en student och en språkvetare.
I första programmet i serien Musik och jiddisch möter vi ryskfödda sångerskan Sophie Milman och den kanadensiska ryskättade professorn Anna Shternshis. De har båda arbetat med den i USA Grammynominerade cd-skivan Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II. Det handlar om försvunna sånger som sjungs på jiddisch. Texterna hittades i ett forna sovjetiskt arkiv i Ukraina. Där hade de legat sedan 1950 då folkmusikvetaren Moisei Beregovsk...2019-08-2759 min
The Real BrunchBrunch With... David Olshanetsky - David's Out For A Good Time - #DO4AGTThis Week the gang sit down with David Olshanetsky. At just 21 David hosts his very own Spotify Original Podcast David's Out For A Good Time #DO4AGT. He is also known for creating the amazing meme Blog Theshitneyspears.com. David dishes out some Drag race and gossip as well as something you ay have missed from the famous Katy Perry live feed. He talks all about striving for and achieving success at such a young age and why he feels it is so important to create content for LGBTQ+ youth. Follow David @davidolshanetsky ...2019-03-0635 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastJay Riazanow (New); Miriam Libenson on Tu Bishvat (Repeat)Jay Riazanow, a retiree in South Florida, talks about his life, from prewar shtetl in Belarus, surviving the Holocaust, growing up in the Soviet Union, moving to Israel, and finally coming to America.
From our archives: Miriam Libenson Z"L: a talk in honor of the holiday Tu Bishvat, the holiday of the trees, originally broadcast in 1994.
Music for Tu Bishvat
Victor Berezinsky: Tu Bishvat
Henry Carrey: Tu Beshvat (Music and Lyrics by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman)
Ruth Levin: A Hoykher Boym (Lyrics Shike Driz, Music by Leibu Levin)
Hilda Bronstein: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym (Lyrics by Itzik Manger)
Dudu Fisher...2019-01-2159 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastDovid Fishman: The Book SmugglersDr. 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...2018-05-031h 00
DisrupTVDisrupTV Episode 92: Dr. Patti Fletcher, Toby Olshanetsky, Alexey Sapozhnikov and Ron MillerThis week on DisrupTV, we caught up with Toby Olshanetsky, Co-Founder & CEO at prooV, Alexey Sapozhnikov, Co-Founder & CTO at prooV, Dr. Patti Fletcher, Author of "DISRUPTERS: Success Strategies From Women Who Break the Mold," and Ron Miller, Enterprise Reporter of TechCrunch.
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.2018-02-031h 02
Calum McSwigganEpisode 8 - David OlshanetskyCalum invited his friend David Olshanetsky (of Tumblr fame) on the Calum McSwiggan show this week. David is Calum’s young, hip friend so Calum learned all about Bella Hadid’s nose job and fashionable food allergies. Tune in for loads of laughter, games and LGBT facts!2017-11-031h 31