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The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPesach with Rav Izchak Kin, Gitu Cycowicz, et al
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 Av...2023-04-041h 13The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPerla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles
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...2023-03-161h 12The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastSheva Zucker: The Golden Peacock
Dr. Sheva Zucker presents her new bilingual audio album The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer, which she edited and produced. It was originally published in 2001 in an all-Yiddish CD format. In 2021, it was released as a revised bilingual edition, making it available either as MP3 files or as two audio CDs. The set now includes the voices of twelve Yiddish writers and a 138-page book that contains the work of each writer in Yiddish with parallel text in English, a biography of each writer in English and Yiddish as well as notes in English about each...2022-05-261h 08The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPesach, Rabbi Moshe Kesselman, Mrs. Gitu CycowitzHappy Passover! א כשרן און געזונטן פסח!
Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show:
Israel Book Shop https://www.israelbookshop.com/ (Eli Dovek recorded Mar 28 2007)
The Butcherie https://www.butcherie.com/ (Max Gelerman ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007)
Cheryl Ann's Bakery http://cherylannsbakery.com/
AAJHS of Greater Boston http://www.generationsafterboston.org/ (Mary Erlich recorded Mar 17 2021)
Leah Shporer-Leavitt, Boston (recorded Mar 17 2021)
Gitu Cycowicz, Jerusalem (recorded Mar 17 2021)
Rabbi Moshe Kesselman, Los Angeles (recorded Mar 17 2021)
Interviews
Rabbi Moshe Kesselman talks about various topics regarding this year's Pesach.
Mrs. Gisel (Gitu) Cycowicz (part 1), Holocaust survivor originally from Chust, Czechoslovakia, discussing her personal history and current doings today in Israel erev...2021-03-1859 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastMiriam Udel: Honey on the Page
Interview with Miriam Udel, editor and translator of Honey on the
Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature (NYU Press, October
2020). Additional info from publisher:
https://nyupress.org/9781479874132/honey-on-the-page/
Miriam Udel is associate professor of Yiddish language, literature,
and culture at Emory University, where she studies the Jewish
encounter with modernity. She holds an AB in Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations from Harvard University, as well as a PhD in
Comparative Literature from the same institution. For more information
visit her web site: http://miriamudel.com
Udel was interviewed by regular Yiddish Voice contributor Lillian
("Leah") Shporer-Leavitt...2020-12-031h 02The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastMyer Loketch z'l, Hasia Segal z'l, Iosif Lakhman z'l: Best of Succos, Shemini Atseres, Simchas TorahIn this time Chol Hamoed, between Succos and Shemini Atseres/Simchas Torah, we hear and remember three late great participants in the Yiddish Voice:
Rav Myer Loketch z'l: on Succos, from our archive, originally recorded and aired in 2006
Hasia Segal z'l and Iosif Lakhman z'l: Rosh Hashonah greetings from our archives
Lovely New Year's greetings from friends, supporters, and participants in The Yiddish Voice:
Tanya Lefman/American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston
Eli Dovek/Israel Book Shop
Cheryl Moore/Moore Family/Cheryl Ann's Bakery
Max Gelerman z"l...2020-10-091h 03
Very Bad WizardsAccept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the Coen Brothers' ode to uncertainty, A Serious Man. Does inaction have consequences? Can you understand the cat but not the math? Why are there Hebrew letters carved into the back of a goy's teeth? Dybbuk or no Dybbuk? Why does God make us feel the questions if he’s not gonna give us any answers? Plus, Paul defends the psych establishment against critiques from the podcast peons at Two Psychologists Four Beers and Very Bad Wizards. Sp...2020-02-251h 39The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastChaim JelenInterview with Chaim Jelen (Henry Jelen). Chaim was born at the
end of WWII in Siberia, where his parents had escaped to from Poland
and settled during WWII. He lives in Chicago, where he has been a
leader in Holocaust education and memorialization, particularly
among the second generation, for several decades.
Music:
Bruce Adler: A malke af peysekh (A Queen for Passover
Moishe Oysher: Dayenu - It Would Have Been Enough
Barry Sisters: Passover Medley
Lori Cahan and Meyshke Alpert: In Dem Land Fun Piramidn
Lori Cahan: Shvimt Dos Kestl Afn Nil
Lori Cahan and Meyshke Alpert: Zog, Maran
Sidor...2019-03-2959 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastLibe Gritz (A Besere Velt @ Yiddish New York); Myer Loketch Hanukkah (Repeat)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...2018-12-121h 03The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastHenry Carrey (New); Myer Loketch: Hanukkah (Repeat)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...2018-11-2959 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast70th Yom Haatsmaut Gitu Cycowics
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
...2018-04-241h 01The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastSaul Noam Zaritt
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...2017-12-1459 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastBest of Succos: Itzchak Kin, Myer Loketch, Miriam Libenson z"lWe 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...2017-10-151h 01The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastMindl Cohen, Leye Leavitt, Sholem BeinfeldPart one our interview with Mindl Cohen, Editor-in-Chief of In Geveb, the online journal of Yiddish studies (ingeveb.org), as well as Harvard University's new Yiddish teacher. Part 2 will air next week.
Special guests Leye Leavitt, Sholem Beinfeld, and with a cameo appearance by Rivke David, joining regular host Meyer David live in studio! Henceforth Leye/Sholem/Rivke/Meyer....
Greetings for the New Year Holidays from our Sponsors were read by Leye
Yiddish Cultural and Educational happenings closer to and farther from Boston were announced by Sholem, Meyer, and Leye
Leye gave a more in-depth report on Yiddish teaching at...2017-09-0158 min