The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast
דאָס ייִדישע קול, ראַדיאָ פּראָגראַם און פּאָדקאַסט אויף ייִדיש
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18.07.2025
52 Minuten
This week, we present our second interview in the past year and a
half with Marvin Zuckerman. Our first took place
in his warm and welcoming home in LA’s Pacific Palisades, where
the walls were adorned with beautiful paintings and lined with
bookshelves holding thousands of volumes. Unfortunately, that
house was destroyed in the LA fires of January 2025. Marvin and
his wife, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, have since
relocated to a rental apartment in Santa Monica, where we
conducted this follow-up interview on June 26, 2025. In this
conversation, Zuckerman reflects on the devastating fire and
shares further insights from his remarkable and multifaceted
life.
Zuckerman was raised in the Yiddish-speaking milieu of the Jewish
Labor Bund in the Bronx, New York. He later became a professor of
English at a Los Angeles college and co-authored the
well-regarded Yiddish textbook Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages as
well as several other works in the field of Yiddish. He also
translated the memoir of prominent Bundist Bernard
Goldstein, Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A
Memoir of Interwar Poland (Purdue University Press, 2016). His
latest book is Dickinson in Yiddish & Other Essays &
Translations (Brass Tacks Press, 2024).
Music:
Sveta Kundish & Patrick Farrell: Ikh un di Velt
(words by Avrom Reyzen)
Ida Gillner & Livet Nord:Mayn heym – Mitt hem (words
by Anna Margolin; Swedish translation by Beila Engelhardt
Titelman)
Levyosn: Fisher-Lid (words by Aliza Greenblatt)
Levyosn: Fun der Khupe / Moh Rabu / Kleyne Printsesin
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: July 15, 2025
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03.07.2025
1 Stunde 29 Minuten
Adi Mehalel (עדי מהלאל) talks about teaching
Yiddish language and literature at Univ. of Maryland and Yivo
Summer Program and discusses the writers I. L. Peretz, the
subject of his book The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the
Rise of Jewish Socialism, and Hanan Ayalti, whose book Boom
and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine is
forthcoming with Mehalel's translation and introduction.
Interviewed in New York City via Zoom on July 2, 2025. Book
links:
Boom and Chains:
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814351802/
The Radical Isaac:
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Radical-Isaac
Avremi Zaks (אבֿרהמי זאַקס), host of the Kan
Yiddish (כאן יידיש) radio show in Israel, discusses Israel's
recent war with Iran and its ongoing war with Hamas.
Interviewed in Jerusalem via Zoom on July 2, 2025. Archive of
Kan Yiddish:
https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10820/
Music:
Yiddish songs about America, in honor of the July 4th
Independence Day holiday:
Mandy Patinkin: American Tune
Aaron Lebedeff & Alexander Olshanetsky
Orchestra:Vot ken you makh? Es iz Amerike!
Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Binyumin
Schaechter: Amerike di Prekhtike
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: July 2, 2025
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27.06.2025
1 Stunde 58 Minuten
Sholem Beinfeld (in Cambridge, MA, recorded
by phone, June 26, 2025)
Leybl Botwinik (in central Israel, recorded
via Zoom, June 26, 2025)
Avremi Zaks (recorded June 20, 2025,
courtesy of Kan Israel radio
(https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10820/))
Music:
(Yiddish music performed by various artists)
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: June 25, 2025
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12.06.2025
1 Stunde 3 Minuten
Leybl Botwinik is a writer of science
fiction, poetry and songs (in both Yiddish and English) who
grew up in Montreal's vibrant Yiddish cultural scene. He is
the son of the late Dovid Botwinik, a composer of Yiddish
songs, music educator, and Yiddish activist, and the brother
of Sender Botwinik, a Yiddish educator, choral director, and
music producer. Now living in Israel, Leybl has passed on the
Yiddish language and culture to his children. In this
episode, he shares stories from his Yiddishist upbringing as
well as personal experiences and reflections on the October 7
massacre. The interview was conducted via Zoom on May 30,
2025 (Erev Shabbos/Shvues).
Rebbetzin Yetta Kane, a Holocaust survivor,
grew up in Miadziol (Yiddish: Miadl – מיאַדל), a small town
in Belarus. She recounts memories of her childhood and how
her family survived the Holocaust by hiding in the forests of
Belarus with the partisans. Yetta and her late husband, Rabbi
and Cantor David Kane, co-authored the
memoir How to Survive Anything: The Life Story of David and
Yetta Kane. This is Part 2 of our interview, recorded at her
home in the Los Angeles area on April 8, 2025. Part 1 aired
on April 23, 2025.
Music:
Chava Alberstein: Friling
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: June 11, 2025
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05.06.2025
1 Stunde 11 Minuten
Samuel Kassow is interviewed by
Sholem Beinfeld about Rokhl Auerbach and her
book Warsaw Testament („וואַרשעווער צוואָות“), which Kassow
translated into English. The interview was by Zoom on May 30,
2025, with Kassow and Beinfeld at their homes in Connecticut
and Cambridge, MA, respectively.
Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor, Emeritus,
of History at Trinity College, and is recognized as one of
the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of
Poland. Kassow was born in 1946 in a DP-camp in Stuttgart,
Germany and grew up speaking Yiddish. Kassow attended the
London School of Economics and Princeton University where he
earned a PhD in 1976 with a study about students and
professors in Tsarist Russia. He is widely known for his 2007
book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the
Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana
University Press). He was elected a Fellow of the American
Academy for Jewish Research, has won numerous awards, and has
lectured widely.
Sholem Beinfeld is co-editor-in-chief of the Comprehensive
Yiddish-English Dictionary and Professor of History,
Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. He translated The
Rudashevsky Diary, which was published as the November, 2024,
issue of The Jewish Quarterly.
Additional info on Warsaw Testament:
Publisher White Goat Press's page:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/about/white-goat-press-0/rokhl-auerbach
Distributor page:
https://www.ipgbook.com/warsaw-testament-products-9798988677390.php
Music:
Hélène Engel: Yeder Ruft Mikh Zhamele from Voices Of The
Ghetto (Voix Du Ghetto): Warszawa, 1943
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: June 4, 2025
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