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Ellie Kellman: Radical Yiddish Press; Holocaust Remembrance Day


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  • Professor Ellie (Elke) Kellman of Brandeis University discusses

    her research on the radical Yiddish press in the America of the late
    19th and early 20th century. Ellie Kellman researches and writes
    about modern Yiddish literature and literary history, specializing
    in the history of the Yiddish periodical press and publishing
    industry. Her book-in-progress is entitled Reading the New Country:
    Abraham Cahan and the Invention of American Jewish Popular
    Culture. She is Associate Professor of Yiddish at Brandeis
    University, where she teaches Yiddish language and literature and
    modern Jewish literature. 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.
    Our friend and cohost Dovid Braun provided an announcement
    after the interview, namely, the following links to the Ellie
    Kellman lecture of July 13, 2020, for the Uriel Weinreich Summer
    Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture of the YIVO
    Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College. Prof. Ellen
    Kellman: Abraham Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish Journalism /
    אַב. קאַהנס ערשטע ליטעראַרישע עקספּערימענטן

    https://yivo.org/YCLS2020-Kellman

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAJY3wSPFA

  • To observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we played three

    recordings of Holocaust survivors from the Yiddish Voice archives:

    • Rochel Zicherman, a survivor originally from a small village

      in Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovakia, who survived Auschwitz
      (recorded in 2019);

    • Dovid Lenga, a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland, who

      survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz (recorded in 2020);
      and

    • Anna Monka ע״ה, a survivor originally from Lida, Poland, a

      former Bielski partisan, who sings the partisan song Zog Nit
      Keymol (recorded 2009)

    • Music:

      • Music: Di Shvue, anthem of the Bund, performed by a youth choir led by Zalmen Mlotek
      • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
      • Air Date: January 27, 2021

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