Miriam Udel is associate professor of Yiddish language, literature,

Udel was interviewed by regular Yiddish Voice contributor Lillian

From our archive: for Hanukkah: Miriam Libenson gives a tribute

Music:

Air Date: December 2, 2020

Khanedank / Thanksgivukkah 2013! Special rebroadcast! We rebroadcast/restreamed our 2013 special live broadcast from Weds Nov 27 2013, which that year occurred on the eve of both the USA Thanksgiving holiday and the first day of Hanukkah.

Here's part of our press press release for that show:

"Erev Thanksgivukkah" Live! Wednesday Night on the Yiddish Voice WUNR 1600-AM/Boston 11/27/13 7:30 PM

Internationally renowned Yiddish music master Hankus Netsky joins several musical friends live in-studio on "The Yiddish Voice" (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, at 7:30 PM, to celebrate "Erev Thanksgivukkah", the eve of both Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah, an extremely rare occurrence in Jewish and American calendars. Hanukkah music, as well as music giving thanks for America, will be played live.

Dr. Hankus Netsky, chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and musical director, producer and arranger for "Eternal Echoes," Itzhak Perlman's acclaimed Jewish music project, featuring cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television, and has also collaborated on projects with such artists as Robin Williams, Joel Grey, and Theodore Bikel.

Besides Netsky, additional anticipated musical guests include Henry Carrey, Linda Gritz, and Dina Ressler.

Henry Carrey is a veteran Yiddish actor and singer, as well as the son of Leah Carrey, known on the Yiddish stage as Leyke Post, the late longtime Boston Jewish radio celebrity.

Linda Gritz is a founding member of the Boston Workmen's Circle Yiddish Chorus, and leads monthly Yiddish singalongs in Brookline.

Dobe (Dena) Ressler is bandleader, cofounder, and clarinetist of Di Bostoner Klezmorim (yiddishmusic.com).

Air Date: November 25, 2020

This week's Yiddish Voice presents an interview with Eleanor Reissa, narrator of Those Who Were There, a new podcast from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust are the subjects of the podcast, which just released its second season featuring witness interviews conducted by New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Eleanor Reissa is a singer, actress, director, and writer, on both the English and Yiddish stages. In the interview Reissa discusses not only the podcast and her role in it, but also her own connection to the Holocaust as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, as well as a look back and an update on her work as an actress and singer. Eleanor Reissa's website: http://www.eleanorreissa.com/

For more information on THOSE WHO WERE THERE: VOICES FROM THE HOLOCAUST, visit thosewhowerethere.org or visit Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/those-who-were-there-voices-from-the-holocaust/id1479564642

Music:

Air Date: November 18, 2020

Holocaust survivors and several others discuss the 2020 United States presidential election. Guests include:

Bronia Brandman, a survivor originally from Jaworzno, Poland, not far from Auschwitz (Oświęcim);

David Lenga, a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland;

Carol Stulberg, a child of survivors and Senior Advisor for Leadership Giving at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;

Jake Turx, senior Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine (on Twitter as @JakeTurx);

Luzer Twersky, actor in Yiddish and American Theatre and Film (on Twitter as @Twersky); and

Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of The Yiddish Voice and Professor of History (Emeritus) at Washington University (St. Louis) as well as Co-Chief Editor of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary.

The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / דאָס ייִדישע קול), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com.

Air date: October 28, 2020

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In this time Chol Hamoed, between Succos and Shemini Atseres/Simchas Torah, we hear and remember three late great participants in the Yiddish Voice:

Rav Myer Loketch z'l: on Succos, from our archive, originally recorded and aired in 2006

Hasia Segal z'l and Iosif Lakhman z'l: Rosh Hashonah greetings from our archives

Lovely New Year's greetings from friends, supporters, and participants in The Yiddish Voice:

• Tanya Lefman/American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston

Music:

• Yiddisher Orchestra: Simchast Torah (instrumental)

We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. Wishing you much joy of Succos!

• לשנה טובֿה - אַ גוט געזונט יאָר - גמר חתימה טובֿה

Air Date: October 7, 2020

Highlights:

Israeli Yiddish radio host Avremi Zaks's interview with Sholem Beinfeld continues and concludes.

From our archive, from the 1990's, Miriam Libenson talks

Lovely New Year's greetings from friends, supporters, and

• Tanya Lefman/American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (AAJHS) of Greater Boston

Music:

• Leibele Waldman: Der Nyer Yohr

We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year. Wishing you much joy of Succos!

• לשנה טובֿה - אַ גוט געזונט יאָר - גמר חתימה טובֿה

Air Date: September 30, 2020