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Estraikh, Mazurkiewicz-Meisarosh, Beinfeld: "August 12, 1952"


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This show recalls the tragic events in the USSR of August

12, 1952. Popularly known as "Night of the Murdered Poets", the
event itself, as well as associated themes -- such as Yiddish
language and culture in the Soviet Union, Soviet Bloc, and in
leftist circles -- is being remembered on this special broadcast by
two distinguished guests, Gennady Estraikh and Jana Mazurkiewicz
Meisarosh.

  • The so-called Night of the Murdered Yiddish Poets took place on

    August 12, 1952, when thirteen leading Jewish political, cultural,
    and intellectual figures of the Soviet Union, among them five highly
    distinguished Yiddish writers, were executed in the Lubyanka Prison
    in Moscow, after having been arrested, imprisoned, and falsely
    accused of espionage and treason, part of a broad anti-Jewish
    campaign in the postwar USSR.

  • Gennady Estraikh is the Rauch Clinical Professor of Yiddish

    Studies at New York University, where he teaches and writes about
    Yiddish intellectual history. He is the former managing editor of
    Sovetish Heymland and writes regularly for the Yiddish Forward
    (Forverts). He has been the author or editor of numerous scholarly
    works. His books include Yiddish in the Cold War (Routledge, 2008);
    Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister
    (Routledge, 2014); and his latest Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
    (Academic Studies Press, 2020). He spoke to us from his summer residence in
    Oxford, England, via Zoom.

  • Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh is the founder and CEO of YAAANA

    (yaaana.org), and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of
    Michigan. She is working on her dissertation on Yiddish Theater in
    Communist Warsaw. Originally from Poland, Jana holds a Master of
    Arts degree in Polish Philology and Jewish Studies from the
    University of Wrocław. She spoke to us via Zoom from her home in San
    Diego.

  • Sholem Beinfeld, regular contributer to the Yiddish Voice,

    joins as co-host to lead the interview and provide additional
    commentary. He is Professor of History (Emeritus) at Washington
    University (St. Louis) as well as Co-Chief Editor of the
    Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary. He spoke via Zoom from
    his home in Cambridge.

  • Music:

    • Emil Gorovets: In Vinter Farnakhtn, words by Dovid Hofshteyn, music by Emil Gorovets, musical arrangement and piano accompaniment by Zalmen Mlotek
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
  • Air Date: August 12, 2020

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