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Podcast of The Yiddish Voice, a weekly hour-long Yiddish-language radio show heard in the Boston area Wednesdays, 7:30 - 8:30 PM, on WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, MA (USA) and live-streamed via yiddishvoice.com

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The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast episodes:

05.11.2024
Yom HaAtzmaut with Burstyn, Trinh, Sharfstein, Zaks
This week we observe Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) talking with Mike Burstyn, Miriam Trinh, Eli Sharfstein and Avremi Zaks. Mike Burstyn is a distinguished actor and singer known for his roles in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English theater and film across...
05.03.2024
Yom HaShoah: Hungarian (Carpathian) Holocaust Survivors Mel Mermelstein (2008), Zoli Langer (2019), Rokhl Zicherman (2019)
This week, for Yom HaShoah, which falls this year on May 6, we present past interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary as we mark the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, 80 years...
04.19.2024
Pesach with Kesselman, Teitelbaum, Deutsch
This week, Pesach greetings and words of wisdom from Rabbi Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Rabbi Moshe Kesselman, and Holocaust survivor Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, as well as greetings from many of our cohosts, friends, and sponsors, as follows: Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek...
04.12.2024
Cantor Herschel Fox
This week, Cantor Herschel Fox, long-time chazzan at Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue in Los Angeles and veteran of the Cantorial world as well as the Yiddish stage, and even Yiddish radio. The interview is filled with stories and anecdotes covering...
03.22.2024
Purim with Viswanath, Pollak, Wolfe, Londner, Beinfeld, Lieberman-Reich
Happy Purim !! אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים Part 1: Jokes and humor for Purim told by Libby Pollak, Sholem Beinfeld, Sheila (Sheyndl) Lieberman-Reich, Sheldon (Shulem) Londner, and Hy Wolfe. Part 2: Arele Schaechter Viswanath discusses his Google Doc "אַ בלעטל פּורים־מאַטעריאַלן", which...
02.15.2024
Nathan Gipsman, Survivor; Biskowitz, Bach: Farbindungen 2024; Borodulin: Yiddish Classes
This week, interview with Holocaust survivor Nathan Gipsman, originally from Będzin (Bendin), who recently celebrated his 99th birthday; Alona Bach and Sarah Biskowitz cover Farbindungen 2024, the third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference, taking place online from February 18 – 19th, 2024;...
02.14.2024
Remembering Dovid Lenga: His 2023 Interview
Last week, we learned the sad news that David (Dovid) Lenga has died at the age of 96. He was buried in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 2024. Los Angeles survivor and community leader Harry Davids said of him, "David...
01.25.2024
Vicky Ash-Shifriss on "Silent Tears" CD
In observance of International Holocaust Rememberance Day (Jan. 27) we're listening to and discussing Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, the acclaimed 2023 CD with new music and songs based on poetry and other writing by several women who are,...
01.22.2024
Remembering Avrohom Fuchs: His 2015 Interview; Miriam Libenson: Tu BeShvat (Replay)
Last week, we received via Facebook the sad news that Avrohom Fuchs has died at the age of 99. He was buried in Jerusalem on Jan. 15, 2024. In his memory, we're airing part of an interview recorded in Jerusalem...
12.28.2023
Mikhl Yashinsky: Di Psure Loyt Khaim
Highlights: Mikhl Yashinsky discusses his new Yiddish-language plan די בשׂורה לויט חיים (The Gospel According to Chaim / Di Psure Loyt Khaim), which is based on the true-life figure Chaim Einspruch, who translated the New Testament into Yiddish. When Einspruch tried...
12.22.2023
Sholem Beinfeld: Analyzing Israel's War; Remembering Hershl Hartman: His 2021 Interview
Highlights: Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of The Yiddish Voice and Professor of History, Emeritus, of Washington University, St. Louis, gives an analysis of Israel's war with Hamas in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre. Hershl Hartman passed away last week, Monday, December...
12.01.2023
Berele Messinger: ZAKA in Israel in the aftermath of Oct 7
Interview with Berele Messinger, an Israeli member of ZAKA who was on the scene in Kibbutz Be'eri the day after the October 7 massacre. We reached him by WhatsApp on Nov. 29, 2023. Music: Moshe Stern: A Gezang Tzu Yisroel Rina Gordon: Far...
11.10.2023
Survivors Cycowicz, Deutsch, Zisblatt, Altmann on Israel & Antisemitism; freygl gertsovski
Highlights of this week's show: Interview with freygl gertsovski, who founded Queer Yiddish Camp, on the upcoming cabaret fundraiser to benefit Queer Yiddish Camp taking place Sun., Dec. 3, 2023, 2 PM Eastern, on Zoom. Info and tickets online here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/radyiddish/1025964...
11.02.2023
Sharfstein, Bryks-Klein, Shifris, Trinh: Massacre and War in Israel
‫מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,400 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי...
10.26.2023
Daniel Galay: Massacre and War in Israel
‫מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,400 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי...
10.12.2023
Sholem Beinfeld, Avremi Zaks: Massacre and War in Israel
‫מיר טרויערן נאָך די מער ווי 1,200 מענטשן שוידערלעך אומגעבראַכט פֿון דער טעראָר-גרופּע כאַמאַס אין ישׂראל דעם 7טן אַקטאָבער 2023. מיר זאָרגן זיך זייער וועגן די פֿאַרוווּנדעטע, זאָלן זיי אַלע האָבן אַ רפֿואה־שלמה, ווי אויך וועגן די פֿאַרכאַפּטע, זאָלן זיי...
10.05.2023
Chol Hamoed Succos with Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Kolya Borodulin, Hy Wolfe
This week, greetings for חול המועד סוכּות (Chol Hamoed Succos) from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with Succos Vort and two interviews, and then a great deal of music appropriate for Yom...
09.29.2023
Greetings and Music Erev Succos; Best of Succos, etc. (2019)
This week, greetings for גמר חתימה טובֿה (Gmar Chassima Toyve, a good final sealing) from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an excellent "Best of Succos" program from our archive (2019) with...
09.22.2023
Greetings and Music Erev Yom Kippur; Rabbi Moshe Kesselman: Rosh Hashona, etc. (2022)
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an excellent interview from our archive with Rabbi Moshe Kesselman (2022). אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער אַ גוט קוויטל...
09.14.2023
Erev Rosh Hashona with Avrohom Marmorstein, et al
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with an exciting new interviews with Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein as well as an encore presentation on the High Holidays by...
09.07.2023
Mordechai-Tzvi Solomon, Eli Grodko, Rosh Hashona
This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants, and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined with exciting new interviews with Rabbi Mordechai-Tzvi Solomon and Eli Grodko! אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער לשנה טובֿה Highlights: Greetings on behalf...
08.31.2023
Lilye Weitzman & Yoyne Sidman: New Yiddish Songs from Boston
Interview with Lily (ליליע) Weitzman and Jonah (יונה) Sidman, who recently led a workshop to teach songs created by them and others active in Yiddish language and culture activities around the Boston Workers Circle. The Yiddish Voice was on hand...
08.25.2023
Nick Underwood: Yiddish Paris; Dovid Braun: Yiddish Studies at YIVO: an Update
This week, interviews with Nick Underwood and Dovid Braun! Interview with Nick Underwood on Yiddish Paris and Nick's book Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which describes the rich Yiddish-speaking culture of emigrants from...
08.10.2023
12 August 1952 Remembered, with Yelena Shmulenson and Boris Sandler
This week, interviews with Yelena Shmulenson and Boris Sandler in memory of the August 12, 1952 tragedy known as Night of the Murdered Poets, when thirteen Soviet Jews, all leading intellectuals, five of whom were top Yiddish writers, were executed...
07.20.2023
Encores: Nathan Kasdan (2013-2014) and Miriam Libenson (1990's)
from our archive: Nathan Kasdan (נחום קאָזשדאַן), who died one year ago (JULY 14, 2022), gave us an extraordinary interview in 2013, which we've previously aired in 2013 and 2014 as well as in 2015. We recently learned that Nathan...
07.14.2023
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on Words for Armed Uprising; Rav Izchak Kin on Personal History
This week, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Rabbi Izchak Kin. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is chairperson of the League for Yiddish. She discusses the League for Yiddish's Words of the Week, specifically the recent week devoted to the armed uprising in Russia. We reached her...
07.07.2023
Sholem Beinfeld: Uprising in Russia; Avremi Zak and Meyer Hirshman: Israeli Society and Politics
This week, Sholem Beinfeld discusses the recent uprising in Russia, and Avremi Zak and Meyer Hirshman discuss Israeli society and politics. Sholem Beinfeld was recorded on the day of broadcast (July 5, 2023). The first interview with Avremi Zak was...
06.29.2023
Avrom Novershtern: Yiddish in Literature and His Personal Life
The Yiddish Voice was in Israel earlier in June 2023 and had the opportunity to interview Avrom Novershtern, who is professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently serves as the director of Beit...
06.22.2023
Mary Ehrlich, Survivor from Gedrevitch, Part 2; Kolya Borodulin on Arbeter-Ring Yiddish Classes
Highlights: interview with Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming at Arbeter Ring (circle.org), talking about the Summer 2023 Yiddish course offerings currently starting or about to start online now. interview, part 2, with Mary Ehrlich, a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh...
06.18.2023
Encore: 2019: Nechama Netali-Gonen (2019)
Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with Fathers Day music at the end. See original show notes here: https://podcast.yv.org/episodes/nechama-netali-gonen Air date: June 14, 2023
06.09.2023
Daniel Galay: Yiddish in Israel and Other Topics
interview with Daniel Galay (דניאל גלאי), an Israeli composor, musician, translator, writer, educator, and Yiddish community leader and activist. He is chairman of Leyvik House, which publishes and sells books, in Yiddish and other languages, and serves as a Yiddish...
06.05.2023
Encore: 2019: Esia Friedman (Part 2)
Encore from our archive, from 2019, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June...
05.26.2023
Encore: 2017: Rabbi Itzchak Kin: Shvues, Yom Yerusholayim; Shulman and Cycowicz: Trump in Israel
Encore from our archive, from 2017, but enhanced for 2023 with an announcement from our sponsor Boston Workers Circle: Boston Workers Circle presents FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: A Besere Velt Chorus with special guest Daniel Kahn. June...
05.19.2023
Elena Luchina, U. Mich. Yiddish Teacher (new); Miriam Libenson Z"L on Shvues (archive)
Interview with Elena Luchina (עלענאַ לוטשינאַ), who is the Yiddish instructor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, discussing her interesting background and current career at one of the leading Yiddish-language and Jewish-studies programs in the United States....
04.27.2023
Yom Haatsmaut with Avremi Zaks
We observe יום העצמאותּ Yom Haatsmaut with Avremi Zaks, whom we reached in Jerusalem, Israel, today: Avremi Zaks is the host of Kan Yiddish, which is sponsored by the National Authority for Yiddish Culture in Israel, and which is broadcast in...
04.20.2023
Ben Lesser, Holocaust Survivor and Educator, for Yom HaShoah
Ben Lesser, a Holocaust survivor born in Cracow in 1928, describes his many ordeals and nearly miraculous survival of the Holocaust as a boy, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to liberation in 1945. Ben founded and runs,...
04.11.2023
Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum (new) for Shvii-Achron Pesach, Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Pinchas Gutter (2022)
Happy Passover! ‫אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח!‬ Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor...
04.04.2023
Pesach with Rav Izchak Kin, Gitu Cycowicz, et al
Happy Passover! ‫אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח!‬ Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor...
03.30.2023
Pesach with Hy Wolfe, Naftali Deutsch, Myer Loketch z"l, et al
Happy Passover! ‫אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח!‬ Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and sponsors of this show: Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007) American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor...
03.23.2023
Sholem Beinfeld: war in Ukraine; Morris (Moyshe) Schwartz: his personal history and activities
Sholem Beinfeld , Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and a co-host of The Yiddish Voice, talks about the Ukraine war after one year This week's featured interview is with Morris (Moyshe) Schwartz, ...
03.16.2023
Perla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles
This week's featured interview is with Perla Karney, discussing her journey from childhood in the Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA and had a...
03.02.2023
Mary Ehrlich, Survivor from Gedrevitch (near Vilna); Miriam Libenson for Purim (from archive)
Highlights: interview with Mary Ehrlich, a Boston-area Holocaust survivor originally from Gedrevitsh, a shtetl near Vilna. She talks about her childhood years up through the arrival of the Germans in 1941. We reached Mary by phone in late February, 2023. We...
01.26.2023
Naftali Deutsch, Auschwitz Survivor, for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tonight's show aired just a couple of days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We present our second interview with Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, an Auschwitz survivor. The interview was recorded at his home in July, 2022. The previous interview is available...
01.05.2023
Dovid Lenga, Holocaust Survivor in Los Angeles, Originally from Lodz
Our featured interview this week is with David (Dovid) Lenga, who recently turned 95, is originally from Łódź, Poland (לאָדזש), and now lives in Los Angeles. He survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz. He recently wrote an Op-Ed...
12.08.2022
Jeffrey Shandler: Yiddish: Biography of a Language
Interview with Jeffrey Shandler, discussing his book Yiddish: Biography of a Language (Oxford University Press, 2020), which describes Yiddish from its origins to the present. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers and holds a PhD from Columbia...
11.25.2022
Gennady Estraikh on the War in Ukraine, 2nd Interview
Our second interview with Gennady Estraikh (first interview aired in March, 2022) discussing the war in Ukraine. Estraikh, who was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, is a professor at NYU who specializes in Jewish intellectual history, Yiddish language and literature, and...
11.25.2022
Gennady Estraikh on the War in Ukraine
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...
11.17.2022
Rokhl Zicherman, Tsirl Kuznitz
Prof. Cecile (Tsirl) Kuznitz talks about the upcoming "Schaechter Conference", which she is chairing, sponsored by the League for Yiddish, JTS, and Columbia University. Info: League for Yiddish Rokhl Zicherman, a survivor of Auschwitz who grew up in Tybava, a small...
10.27.2022
Jessica Kirzane
Jessica Kirzane discusses her recent recent translations from Yiddish into English. She is perhaps best known for her translations of the late Yiddish writer Miriam Karpilove: Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love (Syracuse University Press,...
10.13.2022
Borodulin, Teitelbaum, Succos Simchas Torah
אַ גוטן מועד Happy Succos! For Chol Hamoed Succos, we present two very special guests: Rabbi Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum of Monroe, NY, the Pshischer Rebbe, a descendant of several Polish Chassidic masters including the Yid Hakodesh of Peshischa, gives a shiur for...

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The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast episodes:

Yom HaAtzmaut with Burstyn, Trinh, Sharfstein, Zaks

Yom HaShoah: Hungarian (Carpathian) Holocaust Survivors Mel Mermelstein (2008), Zoli Langer (2019), Rokhl Zicherman (2019)

Pesach with Kesselman, Teitelbaum, Deutsch

Cantor Herschel Fox

Purim with Viswanath, Pollak, Wolfe, Londner, Beinfeld, Lieberman-Reich

Nathan Gipsman, Survivor; Biskowitz, Bach: Farbindungen 2024; Borodulin: Yiddish Classes

Remembering Dovid Lenga: His 2023 Interview

Vicky Ash-Shifriss on "Silent Tears" CD

Remembering Avrohom Fuchs: His 2015 Interview; Miriam Libenson: Tu BeShvat (Replay)

Mikhl Yashinsky: Di Psure Loyt Khaim

Sholem Beinfeld: Analyzing Israel's War; Remembering Hershl Hartman: His 2021 Interview

Berele Messinger: ZAKA in Israel in the aftermath of Oct 7

Survivors Cycowicz, Deutsch, Zisblatt, Altmann on Israel & Antisemitism; freygl gertsovski

Sharfstein, Bryks-Klein, Shifris, Trinh: Massacre and War in Israel

Daniel Galay: Massacre and War in Israel

Sholem Beinfeld, Avremi Zaks: Massacre and War in Israel

Chol Hamoed Succos with Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum, Kolya Borodulin, Hy Wolfe

Greetings and Music Erev Succos; Best of Succos, etc. (2019)

Greetings and Music Erev Yom Kippur; Rabbi Moshe Kesselman: Rosh Hashona, etc. (2022)

Erev Rosh Hashona with Avrohom Marmorstein, et al

Mordechai-Tzvi Solomon, Eli Grodko, Rosh Hashona

Lilye Weitzman & Yoyne Sidman: New Yiddish Songs from Boston

Nick Underwood: Yiddish Paris; Dovid Braun: Yiddish Studies at YIVO: an Update

12 August 1952 Remembered, with Yelena Shmulenson and Boris Sandler

Encores: Nathan Kasdan (2013-2014) and Miriam Libenson (1990's)

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on Words for Armed Uprising; Rav Izchak Kin on Personal History

Sholem Beinfeld: Uprising in Russia; Avremi Zak and Meyer Hirshman: Israeli Society and Politics

Avrom Novershtern: Yiddish in Literature and His Personal Life

Mary Ehrlich, Survivor from Gedrevitch, Part 2; Kolya Borodulin on Arbeter-Ring Yiddish Classes

Encore: 2019: Nechama Netali-Gonen (2019)

Daniel Galay: Yiddish in Israel and Other Topics

Encore: 2019: Esia Friedman (Part 2)

Encore: 2017: Rabbi Itzchak Kin: Shvues, Yom Yerusholayim; Shulman and Cycowicz: Trump in Israel

Elena Luchina, U. Mich. Yiddish Teacher (new); Miriam Libenson Z"L on Shvues (archive)

Yom Haatsmaut with Avremi Zaks

Ben Lesser, Holocaust Survivor and Educator, for Yom HaShoah

Yitzchok-Boruch Teitelbaum (new) for Shvii-Achron Pesach, Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Pinchas Gutter (2022)

Pesach with Rav Izchak Kin, Gitu Cycowicz, et al

Pesach with Hy Wolfe, Naftali Deutsch, Myer Loketch z"l, et al

Sholem Beinfeld: war in Ukraine; Morris (Moyshe) Schwartz: his personal history and activities

Perla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles

Mary Ehrlich, Survivor from Gedrevitch (near Vilna); Miriam Libenson for Purim (from archive)

Naftali Deutsch, Auschwitz Survivor, for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Dovid Lenga, Holocaust Survivor in Los Angeles, Originally from Lodz

Jeffrey Shandler: Yiddish: Biography of a Language

Gennady Estraikh on the War in Ukraine, 2nd Interview

Gennady Estraikh on the War in Ukraine

Rokhl Zicherman, Tsirl Kuznitz

Jessica Kirzane

Borodulin, Teitelbaum, Succos Simchas Torah

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