The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

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Iosif Lakhman Shloyshim Memorial

A special "Shloyshim" program in memory of Iosif Lakhman, beloved co-host of our program, who also extremely active and involved "retirement" life since coming to Boston from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Participants in the show included Sholem Beinfeld, Dovid Braun, Misha Khazin, Lillian (Leye) Shporer-Leavitt, Dina (Dobe) Ressler, and Mark David. We heard excerpts of a broadcast of the Yiddish Voice from August 2012 featuring Iosif Lakhman in studio for the 60th anniversary of the 12 August 1952 "night of the murdered Yiddish poets", the killing of the leading Soviet Yiddish poets and writers on orders from Stalin, an event which Iosif was a masterful in memorializing for our community. Note that there are also "cameo" appearances by the Yiddish activist Arele Viswanath and the Yiddish language and literature professor Elke Kellman in this excerpt. Also, by the way, the full broadcast is currently featured and available for download from the online Forverts article in the links below. We also heard excerpts of Iosif Lakhman's 2013 interview by Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Thanks to the Wexler Oral History Project and the Yiddish Book Center for making this video and making excerpts available to us. See link below for Iosif Lakhman's Oral History for additional audio, video, and info. Related links: Iosif Lakhman, Yiddish Cultural Activist in Boston, Has Died -- in Yiddish -- obituary in the Forverts written by Misha Khazin. Iosif Lakhman's Oral History -- in Yiddish -- Iosif Lakhman's 2013 interview for the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History project. (Note: Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center, conducted this interview with Lakhman.) Dear Dad -- in Russian -- a touching open letter from Iosif Lakhman's daughter Zina Lamm, looking back on their lives together. The letter was published on the web site of the Massachusetts Club of Russian-Speaking Scientists, of which Lakhman had been an active member until the very end. Air Date: July 12, 2017

Jeanette Friedman

Jeanette Friedman is a writer, a publishing services consultant, a Holocaust education expert -- author of Why Should I Care?: Lessons From the Holocaust -- and a 2G and social activist who speaks her mind. She's proud of her yikhes and of the many religious gedoylim in her family, although she herself is off the derekh. We reached her for a wide-ranging interview at her home in Pennsylvania. Air Date: July 5, 2017

Gella Schweid Fishman Shloyshim Memorial

A special "Shloyshim" program in memory of Gella Schweid Fishman, master Yiddish teacher and archivist of the secular Yiddish school movement in the USA. Participants in the show include Dovid Fishman, Dov-Ber Kerler, Rukhl Schaechter, Dovid Braun, and Mark David. Fishman, who is Gella Fishman's son, is Professor of Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary. Kerler is Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies at Indiana University. Rukhl Schaechter is Editor of the Yiddish Forward newspaper and web site yiddish.forward.com. Braun and David are regular participants on the Yiddish Voice. Thanks for audio excerpts of Gella Fishman's 2016 interview by Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. Thanks to Christa and Wexler! See link below additional audio, video, and info. Related links: Gella Fishman Fought Hard for the Dignity of Yiddish -- editorial in Yiddish by the Forverts Yiddish Teacher and Archivist Gella Schweid Fishman Has Died (Yiddish) -- obituary in Yiddish in the Forverts written by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Yiddish Teacher And Archivist Gella Schweid Fishman Has Died (English) -- obituary in English in the Forward written by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Gella Schweid Fishman's Oral History -- 2016 interview by the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History project Air Date: June 21, 2017

Daniel Galai: Israel's Cancellation of Daily Yiddish Radio Broadcast

Daniel Galay wrote about the sorry recent demise of the daily Yiddish-language broadcast in Israel in his recent article in the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), titled (in translation) "Troubling Fate For Israeli Yiddish Radio". The article is here: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/204522/troubling-fate-for-israeli-yiddish-radio/ We reached Daniel Galay by phone in Israel. Daniel Galay is Chairman of Leyvik House (http://www.leyvik.org.il/), the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel, as well as a composer and pianist. Also on this week's show: We continue with an excerpt of an interview with Hasia Segal, the late former co-host of the Yiddish Voice, which was recorded at her summer home on Cape Cod (Massachusetts) in 2008. We also continue with an excerpt of an interview with Arieh London that we first aired in 2010, the late former host of Kol Israel (Israel state radio), who recently passed away. Article in Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/204381/lively-yiddish-radio-host-arie-london-has-died/ Air Date: June 14, 2017

Avremi Zak and Iosif Lakhman Death Announcement

Iosif Lakhman, co-host of this Yiddish Voice radio show and podcast, died yesterday (June 6, 2017). Dovid Braun gives a short announcement of his death, which was sudden, and no funeral details were available. A Shloyshim (memorial) program is planned and will be announced in the coming weeks. The featured interview on this show is with Avremi Zak, who worked for the Yiddish service of Kol Israel, the Israel Broadcast Authority (IBA)'s radio service, until its recent closing. We cover the closing of IBA, as well as other recent events in Israel. Also on this week's show: We announce sadly that Arieh London, the former host of the Yiddish service of Kol Israel, died recently. We present a short excerpt of an interview he did with the Yiddish Voice in 2010. We play an excerpt of an interview with Hasia Segal, the late former co-host of the Yiddish Voice, which was recorded at her summer home on Cape Cod (Massachusetts) in 2008. Air Date: June 7, 2017

Rabbi Itzchak Kin: Shvues, Yom Yerusholayim; Shulman and Cycowicz: Trump in Israel

Special guests and special themes: Shvues and Yom Yerusholayim: Rabbi Itzchak Kin of Los Angeles, originally from Israel, talks about the holiday Shvues, as well as his memories of Jerusalem and the Six-Day War Israel and Trump's Visit: discussed by Ruth Shulman of Tel Aviv and Gitu (Giselle) Cycowicz of Jerusalem Air Date: May 24, 2017

Dovid Roskies (Part 2, Replay) and Gella Schweid-Fishman Death Announcement

Gella Schweid-Fishman died yesterday (May 16, 2017). Dovid Braun gives a short announcement of her death, including funeral details, as well as some details about the life of the beloved Yiddish activist. See also this article (in Yiddish) in Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/204111/yiddish-teacher-and-archivist-gella-schweid-fishma/ The featured interview on this show is with Professor Dovid Roskies. It is a slightly shortened version the interview that we originally aired Nov. 30, 2017. Also on this week's show: We announce that sadly the daily Yiddish radio shows that for decades have been a part of the Israeli state broadcasting service, better known as Kol Israel, have been canceled. They will apparently be "replaced" by a weekly show. Various music is also performed, notably by the Dutch band Nikitov, which is on tour and will be playing several concerts this month on the East Coast of the USA, including a few in Boston. More info here: http://nikitov.com Air Date: May 17, 2017

Menashe Lustig

On the Yiddish Voice tonight we have a very interesting guest. He's an actor and entertainer, but no ordinary one. He is a Chareidi Jew, specifically a Skverer Chossid. In his relatively short life he has suffered no small amount. He's a widower. He not only lost his wife, but then they wanted to take his son away from him. All that and more make up the plot of a new movie named "Menashe", in which this man, whose name stage name is Menachem Lustig, play the leading role. Menachem Lustig is our guest with an interview on this week's show. Also on this week's show: In honor of Israel Independence Day (Yom Haatsmaut): from our archives: Hasia Segal talks about a relatively unsung hero of Israel, and a Bostonian, the late Dewey Stone. News report by Avremi Zaks via Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem (http://www.iba.org.il/world/) Air Date: April 26, 2017

Judy Altmann, Yakob Basner: Yom HaShoah

For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust commemoration day), which occurs this year on Apr. 23, 2017, we present interviews conducted today with Holocaust survivors Yakob Basner and Judy Altmann. Basner was born and raised in Riga, Latvia. He survived the Riga ghetto, five concentration camps, and a death march. We reached Basner by phone at his home in Seal Beach, CA. Altmann was born and raised in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, a small town in the Carpathian mountains (now Yasinya, Ukraine). She survived Auschwitz, labor camps, and a death march to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. We reached Altmann by phone at her home in Stamford, CT. Air Date: April 19, 2017

Sylvia Bialik: "Der Yidisher Idol"

Interview with the Sylvia Bialik, organizer of the "Yiddish Idol" ("Der Yidisher Idol") in Mexico City, a Yiddish singing and songwriting competition whose submission deadline comes later this month (April 23, 2017). See also "Der Yidisher Idol" web site (in Spanish and English): http://deridisheridol.com Also on this week's show: Pesach music and Pesach greetings from sponsors and friends. Hasia Segal: Di Veltlekhe Hagode (highlights of the Arbeter Ring haggadah; from 1991) Air Date: April 12, 2017

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