The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Reyze Turner from the Yiddish Scene in Paris


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  • This show starts a series of interviews with activists on
the Yiddish scene around the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library
starting Wednesday June 12 2019 at 7:30 PM with an interview with Ri
J. (Reyze) Turner.
  • Ri J. (Reyze) Turner Ri J. Turner is a translator and Yiddish
  • language teacher at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library, as well
    as an MA candidate in Yiddish Studies at the Hebrew University of
    Jerusalem. She is a three-time alumna of the Uriel Weinreich Summer
    Program at YIVO in New York, and was a Translation Fellow of the
    Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, in 2014 and 2018 and the
    National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Fund in 2018. Her
    translations and original writing have appeared in In Geveb, Pakn
    Treger, the Forverts, Afn Shvel, and elsewhere.
  • Interviews in the series will continue in following weeks with
  • Yitskhok Niborski and Gilles Rozier, with announcements to follow.
  • The interviews are conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, He is Professor
  • Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and is
    perhaps best known as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Comprehensive
    Yiddish-English Dictionary (Arumnemik Yidish-English Verterbukh), as
    well as a translator of Yiddish texts and creator of new subtitles
    for classic Yiddish movies. The Dictionary is based on the
    Yiddish-French Dictionary edited by Yitskhok Niborski and published
    by the Medem Library/Paris Yiddish Center. Sholem's connection with
    the Medem Library goes back many decades, beginning with his
    Fulbright Fellowship in Paris as a graduate student.
  • Music
    • Yiddish Princess (vocals: Sarah Mina Gordon) : Ver Vet Blaybn
    (lyrics: Avrom Sutzkever)
  • Dudu Fisher: Moyshele (lyrics: Mordkhe Gebirtig)
  • Myrna Rabinowitz: Mayn Tate (words and music: Myrna Rabinowitz)
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental
  • track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

    Air date: June 12, 2019

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