Second interview with Gennady Estraikh discussing the war in Ukraine. (Our first interview aired in March, 2022.) Estraikh, who was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, is a professor at NYU who specializes in Jewish intellectual history, Yiddish language and literature, and Soviet Jewish history. He has written numerous books, academic papers, and journal and newspaper articles in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish, notably for the Yiddish Forverts. He served as managing editor of the famed Yiddish literary journal Sovetish Heymland from 1988 to 1991. His books include Yiddish Culture in Ukraine (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2016, in Ukrainian) and Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Academic Studies Press, 2020). The interview took place over Zoom on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.

In honor of our upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we present Interview with the Turkey, a radio monologue recorded and first aired in the 1990's, by Boston's late, great Yiddish radio host Ben Gailing.

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Air date: November 23, 2022