The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

por The Yiddish Voice

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Sabina Brukner

Sabina Brukner discusses Yiddish Fiddler, that is, the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, now playing at the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City, where Sabina serves officially as Literary Manager and unofficially as Yiddish language coach. For info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Greetings from our good friends and frequent contributors Sholem Beinfeld, Dovid Braun, and Mordkhe Murstein for the New Year Holidays (from last year's show) From our archives: interview with Miriam Libenson o"h, our late frequent guest contributor and poet, who died in 2004, discussing personal memories Succos and singing the song "A Sukele a Kleyne", based on a poem by Avrom Reisen called In suke. Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Music: Mordkhe Hershman: Af Bri Moyshe Ganchoff: Geshem and Mo Oshiv Khor Gezelshaft HaSomir: Di Sukele Shmuel Rudenski, Lea Dulitzkaya, and Cast: Tog Ayn, Tog Oys, from the record ‏אַ פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך (A Fidler Afn Dakh) (Columbia Records, Israel, 1965) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: September 26, 2018

Best of Succos [Encore]

Previously aired Oct 10, 2016 We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. לשנה טובה תיכתבו ותיחתמו! ‏ מיר ווינטשן אײַך ״אַ גוט קוויטל״! For Succos and Simchas Torah: Miriam Libenson z"l (from the '90's) and Myer Loketch צו לאַנגע יאָר (from 2006) Air Date: October 10, 2016 AND September 19, 2018

Itzchak Kin: High Holiday Q&A [Encore]

Previously aired Sep 27, 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 AND September 12, 2018

Rav Avrohom Marmorstein, Leye Shporer Leavitt, et al

Leye (Lillian) Shporer Leavitt joins regular host Meyer (Mark David) as co-host for a lively "Erev Rosh Hashona" program live from WUNR studios in downtown Boston, joined by phone by regular contributors Dovid Braun and Sholem Beinfeld as well as special guest Rav Avrohom Marmorstein. Leye gave a report on the 2018 Yugntruf Yidish-Vokh retreat she recently attended and provided info on upcoming Yiddish offerings at the Boston Workmen's Circle. Dovid Braun reported on his recent experience teaching at YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program 2018, the 50th anniversary of that program. Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein, director of Mehadrin Kashrus, joined by phone to discuss and give his greetings for Rosh Hashona 5779. Sholem Beinfeld gave a reading about Rosh Hashona Music: Leybele Waldman: Der Nayer Yor Metropolitan Klezmer: Shpil Du Fidl, Shpil, from the CD Traveling Show Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Air Date: Sep 5 2018

Daniel Kahn, Michael Yashinsky: Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof

Interviews with two cast members of the smash-hit Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof, known as Fidler afn Dakh in Yiddish, which has just had its run at the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene in New York extended by two months. Info: http://nytf.org/fiddler-on-the-roof/ Michael Yashinsky played the roles of Mordkhe the innkeeper as well as Nokhem the beggar from the beginning of the current production of Fidler Afn Dakh until around the broadcast date on Aug 30 2018. We wish Michael success in his new role teaching Yiddish at University of Michigan. Michael Yashinsky's web site: https://yashinsky.com/ Daniel Kahn played the role of Perchik, the revolutionary intellectual, from the beginning of the current production of Fidler Afn Dakh until just few days before this interview was broadcast on Aug 30 2018. He is a Berlin-based Yiddish actor, singer, and songwriter, who founded and leads the klezmer band Painted Bird (http://paintedbird.net) Music: Leybele Waldman: Der Nayer Yor (excerpts) Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler Afn Dakh) Cast: Youtube highlights (https://youtu.be/X7yryjpzUv8) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Thanks to our Sponsors! Israel Book Shop, Brookline, MA (https://www.israelbookshop.com/) The Butcherie, Brookline, MA (http://www.butcherie.com/) Cheryl Ann's Bakery, Brookline, MA (http://cherylannsbakery.com/) BLER Travel, Brookline, MA (http://bler.vacationport.net/) Air Date: Aug 29 2018

Anna Shternshis: Yiddish Glory

Interview with Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at University of Toronto. The interview is presented in memory of 12 August 1952, when thirteen Jews were executed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, five of them Yiddish writers Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, Leib Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson. Dr. Shternshis was executive producer of the recently released CD Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, based on her research on Moisei Beregovsky's archive, which the Soviet authorities confiscated in 1947, arresting Beregovsky a short time later. The Yiddish Glory CD contains songs written in Yiddish by Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II. The CD's songs have music thoughtfully composed by Shternshis's collaborator Psoy Korolenko. There is a large ensemble of talented musicians and singers on the CD. Key musical personnel include Psoy Korolenko, composer and singer; Sophie Milman, singer; and Sergei Erdenko, musical director, violinist, and singer. The CD includes a booklet with high quality English and Russian translations. Dr. Shternsis and Psoy Korolenko have recently toured extensively in the past year in support of the CD, bringing these once-lost songs to an ever widening audience. For more information on the Yiddish Glory CD: https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/yiddishglory/ Anna Shternshis is also author of two books, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: an Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2017). The interview is 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. Dr. Beinfeld served as principal consultant on the film "Partisans of Vilna" (credited as Solon Beinfeld). He was senior consultant and historian to the Kovno Ghetto Exhibition project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and consultant to the Museum on the Ghetto archive holdings in the Lithuanian State Archives in Vilnius. Songs from the CD Yiddish Glory: Misha tserayst Hitlers Daytchland Babi Yar Yoshke fun Ades Shpatsir in Vald Afn Hoykhn Barg Kazakhstan Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: Aug 8 2018

Mikhoel Felsenbaum, Avremi Zaks

Kan Yiddish radio hosts Avremi Zaks and Mikhoel Felsenbaum and דאָס ייִדישע קול host Mark David interviewed each other about their Yiddish radio shows. Kan Yiddish, sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel (https://www.yiddish-rashutleumit.co.il/), 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 Forverts Kol news report by Jacob (Kobi) Weitzner, courtesy of the Yiddish Forward, 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: July 25 2018

Debra Caplan: Yiddish Empire

Interview with Debra Caplan discussing her book Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy The interview is 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. Music: Excerpts from David Tamkin’s opera The Dybbuk, inspired by the play first and most famously performed by the Vilna Troupe. Track: Nigun of the 7 Circles. From the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: Jewish Operas: Volume 1. Di Frosh and Feter Elye, performed by Noah Nachbush, the late actor who performed as a member of the Vilna Troupe in the world premiere of Der Dibek (The Dybbuk) in 1920, from the album Gems of Yiddish Poetry and Folklore: LP No. 330 Cantor Mordechai Herschhman: Vyo Vyo Ferdelach Forverts Kol news report by Jacob (Kobi) Weitzner, courtesy of the Yiddish Forward, 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: June 27 2018

Zalmen Mlotek: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (New); Avrom Nowersztern: Sholem Aleichem (Repeat)

Interview with Zalmen Mlotek discussing the forthcoming production Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler afn Dakh) by the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene. Previews begin July 4, 2018. Info: http://nytf.org Twitter: @folksbiene Interview with Avrom Nowerstern discussing the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears and the author Sholem Aleichem generally (abbreviated and repeated from a 2011 broadcast) Music: excerpts from Fidler afn Dakh album on Columbia Records, with the original Israeli Yiddish cast, featuring Shmuel Rudenski, et al. Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: June 13 2018

Miriam Hoffman: A Breed Apart

Interview with writer Miriam Hoffman discussing her recently published memoir A Breed Apart: Reflections of a Young Refugee which describes her fascinating life, from childhood in Sibera and Germany through adulthood in New York, raising a family in Yiddishist society in New York and finding success as a columnist and feature writer for the Yiddish "Forward" Newspaper ("Forverts"), as a Yiddish educator at Columbia University, and as a playwright, including cofounding the Joseph Papp Yiddish Theatre. The interview is 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. Music: Sarah’s Lullaby & Hagar’s Lament, performed by Shirim Klezmer Band, from the CD Of Angels and Horseradish, sung by Rosalie Gerut (Sarah) and Betty Silberman (Hagar), lyrics by Itzik Manger and Miriam Hoffman, from the play Lider fun Gan Eydn (Songs of Paradise), based on the poetry of Itzik Manger, play written by Miriam Hoffman and Rena Berkowicz Borow. Rav Myer Loketch discusses Shvues and Megilas Rus (Repeated from 2007.) Music: Shvues, performed by Cantor Louis Danto, Composer: Yoel Engel, Author: Shimon Shmuel Frug Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: May 16 2018

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