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• See Rafoyl Finkl's excellent Yiddish-event guide for upcoming events around the world (and also an interesting catalog of past events nearby on the same page).



• Klezmershack's KLEZCALENDAR - Jewish music events around the world



• The NCJF (National Center for Jewish Film) keeps track of worldwide Screenings of Yiddish Films (well, at least many of them are in Yiddish).



• Here is one of the best, and most up-to-date Yiddish Events Kalendar, hosted by Der Bay, including an excellent Boston/New England Yiddish Events Calendar.

Yiddish Voice Internet Audio Service

• 17 November 2004: Yiddish Voice 11-17-04 Broadcast in Memory of Miriam Libenson: On our Wednesday, Nov. 17. 2004 broadcast, we honored the memory of Miriam Libenson with a special program.
  
  
• MEN INTERVYUIRT UNDZ! (They Interview Us!)
  7 August 2004: Interview of The Yiddish Voice's own Mark David (host/producer) and Hasia Segal (cohost) by The Forward Hour's Boris Sandler, as aired on The Forward Hour, WMCA AM 570/New York, NY, August 7, 2004, discussing the ten-year anniversary of The Yiddish Voice. Listen
  
  
• 13 November 2002: interview with Benjamin Harshav, Yale University, editor of The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the new translation of Herman Kruk's Vilner Ghetto diary. Also with readings from the English translation by the book's translator, Barbara Harshav. Listen
  
  
• Interview with Szulim Rozenberg originally aired Weds., 28 August 2002: Dovid Braun talks with Szulim Rozenberg of the Medem Bibliotek (Paris), discussing among other things the forthcoming (Oct. '02) publication his wife's memoir: Girl With Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941 to 1945, an English translation from the original Yiddish.
  
  
• Upon receiving the sad news of his death on July 3, 2002 in Munich at age 88, we posted this interview with Misha Alexandrovitch Z"L conducted by Hasia Segal for The Yiddish Voice May 9, 1995, a few days before his arrival in Boston for a concert at the John Hancock Center, May 15, 1995. The interview was first aired on The Yiddish Voice in May 1995.
  
  
• Interview with Michael Wex, author of the book Shlepping the Exile, and a leading light of the "International Yiddish Avant-Garde". Interviewed by Mark David for The Yiddish Hour (WBRS 100.1 FM/Waltham, MA) in December, 1993. In Yiddish except for the author reading a book excerpt in English. The interview was aired on The Yiddish Hour in Spring, 1994.
  
  
• Interview with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's oral scribe for fourteen years, one of the foremost authorities on the Rebbe's talks and writings, and author of the best-selling book Toward A Meaningful Life (and leader of the Meaningful Life Learning Center. (This interview was broadcast on The Yiddish Voice on December 17, 1997, as was announced in the Mendele mailing list, the Algemeiner Journal, and other web and print media.)
  
  
• Fort a yid ken mizrekh eyrope: An Interview with Dovid Braun concerning his recent travels to Eastern Europe. David/Dovid Braun is Preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University. He regularly teaches at the YIVO Intensive Yiddish Summer Program and taught at the first such program held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Jewish Historical Institute.
  
  
• For Rosh Hashone, 5760, here's the Sept. 8 program feature: Miriam Libenson: Lekoved Rosh Hashone 5760.
  
  
• On the occasion of Rosh Hashone, 5758, we present this special audio selection from our Sept. 24, 1997, program: Miriam Libenson, the resident poet on The Yiddish Voice and a frequent contributor of holiday tributes: Lekoved Rosh Hashone 5758.
  
  
• Hear Horav Yosef Dov Halevy Soloveitchik zts"l addressing rabonim with the lecture: "The Role of the Rabbi", recorded on May 15, 1955. This lecture in Yiddish demonstrates the Rav's khokhme (wisdom), as well his passion, intensity, and even his sense of humor. As well, this lecture affords an opportunity to hear the Rav set out the agenda for his students, followers, and fellow rabonim in the post-Holocaust era. This recording (2 Hours in duration) is item #5123 in a series of cassettes called Torah Tapes, available for purchase at nominal cost from Rabbi Milton Nordlicht. A complete listing of his is available from his web site: http://www.torahshiurim.com.
  Note: (New!) Yiddish Shiurim of Rav Soloveitchik have recently (2006) become available for online listening at www.bcbm.org.
  
  
• Hear Solomon Small in endearing and humorous "khasene" (wedding) songs: "Tsu der khupe vetshere" ("To the wedding dinner", Victor recording 16607 A) and "Shmendriks bazetsens" ("Shmendrik's bazetsns (traditional seating of the bride)", Victor recording 16607 B).
  
  
• Listen as Aaron Lebedeff sings his comedic ode to the American-Jewish immigrant experience in "vos ken yu makh! s'iz amerike" ("What can you do! It's America", Vocalion recording A 67140). Then, from the "B side", hear Mr. Lebedeff's pining for the old country in "khasene in tshizsheve" ("Wedding in (the small town) Tshizsheve", Vocalion recording B 67140).
  
  
• Hanukkah with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. This was originally posted on the Yiddish Voice Internet Audio service on the occasion of his 3rd yortsayt. It's a recording of the Rebbe addressing his followers around Hanukkah in the year 1985 (Jewish Year 5746) / khanike mitn lubavitsher rebe'n. originel hot me dos ufgeshtelt afn internet in ondenk funem libavitsher reben, horav menakhem mendl shnirzon, zts"l, tsu zayn dritn yortsayt. dos iz a rekordirung fun zayns a droshe, motsey shabes koydesh zoys khanuke 5746 (fun khanike tsayt in yor 1985 loytn nishtyidishn luekh). The yortsayt was 7 July 1997. For further information, visit the Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace web site: http://www.chabad.org.
  
  
• Hear Cantor Yosele Rozenblat: "Vliyrushalayim Irkho" ("And to Jerusalem Your City", Victor recording 17400 A, in Hebrew).
  

Other Interesting Internet Yiddish Audio Sites

• Steven Lasky's 'Yiddish Radio Hour' with your esteemed hosts Zalmen & Celia Zylbercweig, providing a history of the couple's 1950's-1960's-era, Los Angeles-based, daily Yiddish radio show, featuring a continually rotating "new" show from the show's reel-to-reel tape archive.
  
  
• The National Yiddish Book Center Multimedia Library has a treasure trove of recordings, including the newly released and curated audio recordings from Montreal's Jewish Public Library.
  
  
• Kol Avrohom: Daf Ha-Yomi in Yiddish by HaRav Avrohom Karp ZT"L
  
  
• The Yiddish Radio Project, David Isay and Henry Sapoznik, Producers, is on the net, and Features a real audio shmorgasbord of American Jewish/Yiddish radio from its golden age.
  
  
• Visit The Daily Sicho (http://www.sichos.com/) to hear the Daily Yiddish Sichos of the Lubavitscher Rebbe.
  
  
• In 1995 the National Yiddish Book Center and KCRW 89.9FM/Santa Monica, CA, produced Jewish Short Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond, which was reviewed in the New York Times.
  
  
• Stories read by Sara Blacher-Retter, presented by Di Velt Fun Yidish at Haifa University.

Recent Programs

• May 8, 2013: Michael Wex: Campaign to Translate Joseph Opatoshu's Book In Poylishe Velder Through Crowdsourcing.
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Michael Wex: Opatoshu Translation Campaign (Interview-only Excerpt, ~14 MB)
  
  For further information on the Internet:
  Wex's campaign web page:
  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-authorized-translation-of-a-classic-yiddish-novel-into-english
  About Michael Wex:
  http://www.michaelwex.com
  
  
• May 1, 2013: Dr. Sheva Zucker discusses Ellen Cassedy's Book "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust"
  
  [Audio/MP3:] May 1, 2013: Sheva Zucker re Cassedy Book (Interview, ~7.3 MB)
  
  
• Apr. 17, 2013: Boston Marathon Tragedy - interview with Boston Marathon bombing eye witness, Rabbi Yossi Zaklos, who was within a block of both bombs, and took part in helping in the aftermath; also, weekly vort by Rabbi Shmuel Posner focuses on the Boston Marathon Tragedy. Also, we replay Itzik Gottesman's interview about the new Yiddish Forward (online and in print).
  
  [Audio/MP3:] April 17, 2013: Boston Marathon Tragedy (Entire Broadcast, ~28 MB)
  
  
• Mar. 20, 2013: Pesach Program! Many Special Participants!
  
  [Audio/MP3:] March 20, 2013: Pesach Program with Many Special Particpants (Entire Broadcast, ~28 MB)
  
  Participants:
  • Janet Stein
  • Dovid Braun
  • Yosef Lakhman
  • Myer Loketch
  • Avrohom Marmorstein
  • Hasia Segal
  • Max Kohn
  • Sholem Beinfeld
  • Shmuel Posner
  
  
  Music at end: credits:
  • Tal (Cantor Josef Rosenblatt, assisted by Cantor Meilech Kaufman)
  • Ma Nishtano (Boy Alto Soloist: Berel Aneis, accompanied by Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky with Ben Friedman and his choir)
  • Ho Lachmo Anyo (Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky with Ben Friedman and his choir)
  
  
  
• Feb. 20, 2013: Amanda Miryem-Khaye Segal

  [Audio/mp3:] Hert Miryem-Khaye Segal's intervyu afn 'Yidishn Kol' radio-program (20'Feb'2013)

  
  
  
• Feb. 6, 2013: Barry Goldstein

  [Audio/mp3:] Hert Beyrish Goldshteyns intervyu afn 'Yidishn Kol' radio-program (6'Feb'2013) vegn zayn iberzetsung fun 'The Hobbit': 'Der Hobit'

  
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  Barry Goldstein, Translator: DER HOBIT: ODER AHIN UN VIDER TSURIK (Yiddish Edition)
  
  
  
• Dec. 19, 2012: Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner: New Yiddish Dictionary.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available via the following MP3 Link:
  
  • Beinfeld/Bochner: New Yiddish Dictionary
  
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  It's here! The new Yiddish Dictionary, edited by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner! Order now! Here:
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  See complete details at the new Verterbukh Website!
  
  
• Nov. 6, 2012: More Hurricane Sandy Interviews: we spoke with Sam (Shmuel) Norich, publisher of the Yiddish and English Forward about Hurricane Sandy's impact on the Forward offices, staff, and newspaper production, and with Shmuli Furman, a representative of the Boro Park Shomrim about their relief efforts for residents of Seagate.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available via the following MP3 Links:
  
  • Hurricane Sandy: Shmuel Norich
  • Hurricane Sandy: Shmulie Furman
  
  
  
• Oct. 31, 2012: Hurricane Sandy Interviews: we spoke with Shoshke-Rayzl Juni, Yiddish language activist and enthusiast as well as a resident of Greenwich Village, about living through Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath without power, and with Avrohom Friedman, publisher of Yiddish-language newspaper Di Zeitung, about what happened during Sandy and the current status in the Charedi communities around New York City and about his successful struggle to come out with the newspaper amid post-Sandy difficulties. At the end of the show, we heard a tribute by Iosif Lakhman to his friend and collaborator, the writer Misha Khazin.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available via the following MP3 Links:
  
  • Hurricane Sandy: Shoshke Rayzl Juni
  • Hurricane Sandy: Avrohom Friedman
  
  
  
• October 24, 2012: Interview with Marc Caplan, author of How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms. Caplan is a professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Johns Hopkins University. He writes a regular column on popular culture for the journal "Afn Shvel".
  
  
• Oct. 17, 2012: Jordan Kutzik and Christa Whitney of the National Yiddish Book Center.

  Christa Whitney is Director of the Wexler Oral History Project, which is producing a growing archive of recorded oral history interviews. More than 200 interviews have been produced so far with people of all ages and backgrounds with connections to Yiddish language and culture.

  Jordan Kutzik, a Yiddish Book Center Fellow, has overseen the digitization of the Jewish Public Library of Montreal's vast and unique collection of audio recordings of books and cultural programs in Yiddish.

  The National Yiddish Book Center, based in Amherst, MA, is a non-profit organization that has rescued over one million old Yiddish books, and works on disseminating these books, both physically and digitally, translating them into English and other languages, and presenting related educational programs. For further information, visit their web site: www.yiddishbookcenter.org
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available via the following MP3 Links:
  

  • Jordan Kutzik
  • Christa Whitney
  
  
  
• October 10, 2012: Professor Gabriel (Gabi) Weinreich: the son and brother, respectively, of the late Yiddish-language scholars Max and Uriel Weinreich, he was born in Vilna (then Poland, now Lithuania) in 1932 and emigrated at the start of the war to the USA, where he grew up in the rich Yiddish culture atmosphere surrounding the YIVO Institute, in which his family played a very central role. He became a physicist, and eventually became a Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Rather late in life he became a Christian and was even ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1986. He wrote about this process, as well as the rest of his life story, in his relatively recent autobiography, "Confessions of a Jewish Priest: From Secular Jewish War Refugee to Physicist and Episcopal Clergyman". In this third and final segment of the interview, Weinreich discusses his autobiography, including his becoming a Christian and its impact on him and others. The entire interview will be made available for download on the Yiddish Voice web site (yiddishvoice.com) at a later time.
  
  
• October 3, 2012: Yiddish Voice Interview: Rosalyn (Reyzl) Kirkel: In the interview Rosalyn discusses her early life. As a Jewish child born in Shavl (Siauliai, Lithuania) at the start of WWII, she survived by being adopted by non-Jews, reuiniting with her father only after the war. Today, Rosalyn is a lecturer, radio commentator, and professional story teller in Denver, CO.
  
  
• Aug. 1, 2012: Amelia Glaser, associate professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, and director of Russian and Soviet Studies at UCSD, the author of Jews and Ukrainians (Northwestern U. Press, 2012), and the translator of Proletpen: America's Rebel-Yiddish Poets (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2005), which recently appeared in paperback.



• July 4, 2012: interview with Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center.
  
  
• June 27, 2012: Interview with Mikhael (Mishe) Krutikov
  
  
• June 20, 2012: Interview with Daniel Ajzen, founder and head of SaveTheMusic.com, whose goal is to collect and digitalize Jewish music recordings, and also runs WebStation One, which manages several Yiddish-language-oriented websites.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: June 20, 2012: Interview with Daniel Ajzen -- via MP3 (~28 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• May 9, 2012: University of Michigan Yiddish Class and Prof. Anita Norich. Interview by fellow Yiddish class student Rebecca David.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: May 9, 2012: Interview of University of Michigan Yiddish Class and Professor Anita Norich interviewed by Rebecca David -- via MP3 (~28 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• May 2, 2012: Yom Hashoah Program: Remembering Nazi Concentration Camp Ebensee with Mark Jacoby and Morris Hollender.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: May 2, 2012: Yom Hashoah Program: Remembering Nazi Concentration Camp Ebensee with Mark Jacoby and Morris Hollender -- via MP3 (~28 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Mar. 28, 2012: Sara Ferdman Tauben On Montreal Synagogues
  
  
• Mar. 21, 2012: (1) In memory of Yacov Kirshner at Shloyshim: a Hesped jointly by Rev. Myer Loketch and his son Rabbi Dov Loketch; and (2) Interview with the Yiddish translator and teacher Dr. Anita (Khane-Faygl) Turtletaub about her new book and CD with original songs titled "Yiddish Songs for Children". Dr. Turtletaub lives in Chicago and teaches Yiddish at Northwestern University. To order or get more info, call Mame-Loshn Productions: (847) 675-3335.
  
  
• Feb. 29, 2012: Rev. Myer Loketch: Lekoved Purim; Morris Hollender Purim Kiddush (from his prewar Carpathian home, replay from 2011); Rosalie Gerut: an invitation to her concert this Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2012; and Libby Pollak: about "Chassidish Yiddish" on Facebook and her own Facebook page: Libby Pollak: Comedian, the forthcoming video she's producing, and her own Yiddish.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available via the following MP3 Links:
  
  • Myer Loketch: Lekoved Purim
  • Morris Hollender: Purim Kiddush, etc.
  • Rosalie Gerut: Concert Invitation
  • Libby Pollak: Chassidish Yiddish, etc.
  
  
  
• Jan. 25, 2012: Shloyshim (memorial) program for of Adrienne (Khane) Cooper Z"L, featuring some of her music and interviews with several of her longtime friends and collaborators: Josh Waletzky, Meyshke Alpert, Michael Wex, and Zalmen Mlotek.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  

  Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: January 25, 2012: Adrienne (Khane) Cooper Shloyshim Memorial Program -- via MP3 (~28 MB).
  To download, click here.

  	Adrienne Cooper z"l: Adrienne Cooper Performer, Interpreter of Yiddish Song, 1946 - 2011 (Link: Jewish Women's Archive: We Remember memorial website)




• Jan. 11, 2012: Interview with Leah and Josef Weiner, a couple in Berlin, Germany (recorded Chol Hamoed Pesach, 2011).
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  

  Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: January 11, 2012: Yiddish Voice Interview with Josef and Leah Weiner in Berlin -- via MP3 (~36 MB).
  To download, click here.




• Dec. 14, 2011: Hanukkah Program. Guests Morris Hollender (sings Haneiros Hololu), Dovid Braun (explains the spelling "KhANEKE", and the Yiddish and Hebrew words for Hanukkah Menora), and Chasia Segal (recalls Boston teaching days, news from West Palm Beach, greetings and opinions).
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Dec. 14, 2011: Hanukkah Program: Hollender, Braun, Segal -- via MP3 (~28 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Aug. 24, 2011: Avrom Nowersztern: interview about Sholem Aleichem, and about the new film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  

  Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: August 24, 2011: Yiddish Voice Interview with Avrom Nowersztern re Sholem Aleichem Film -- via MP3 (~10 MB).
  To download, click here.




• Aug. 10, 2011: Soviet Jewish Culture: Two Major Events: the blossoming of Jewish Culture at the time of the Russian Revolution, and the decimation of Jewish Culture culminating in the 12th of August, 1952.
  Featured presentations:
  • Iosif Lakhman: dem 12 oygust 1952: On the Soviet Yiddish writers murdered by Stalin in 1952
  • Kenneth B. ("Benyomen") Moss, author of Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution interviewed
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  

  Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: August 10, 2011: Yiddish Voice with guests Iosif Lakhman and Benyomen Moss -- via MP3 (~20 MB).
  To download, click here.




• July 20, 2011: Boro Park/Kletzky Tragedy
  In response to the horrific murder of the young Chassidic Jewish boy Leiby Kletzky in Brooklyn, which took place last week and which has brought shock and trauma to his community and far beyond.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Rabbi Shayke Lerner, Director of Chabad of Brookline

    Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: July 20, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Shayke Lerner -- via MP3 (~12 MB).
    To download, click here.

  • Rabbi Mordechai Gobioff, Director of Client Services - National, Chai Lifeline

    Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: July 20, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Mordechai Gobioff -- via MP3 (~13 MB).
    To download, click here.

  • Rukhl Schaechter, writer for the Yiddish Forward

    Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: July 20, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Rukhl Schaechter -- via MP3 (~15 MB).
    To download, click here.

  
  
  
• Jun. 22, 2011: Interview with Naftuli Ejdelman about his upcoming Golus Festival.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Jun. 22, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Naftuli Ejedelman -- via MP3 (~5 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Mar. 30, 2011: Interview with Dovid Botwinik about his life and his musical career and about his new book "From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs" ("Fun Khurbn Tsum Lebn: Naye Yidishe Lider").
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Mar. 30, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Dovid Botwinik -- via MP3 (~19 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Feb. 9, 2011: Interview with Itzik Gottesman about the Yiddish music scene. Gottesman is producer of the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, associate editor of the Yiddish Forward, and editor of its Yidish-Velt column.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Feb. 9, 2011: Yiddish Voice: Itzik Gottesman -- via MP3 (~40 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Oct. 13, 2010: Interview with Fyvush Finkel (who's starring in Fyvush Finkel Live at the Foksbiene for three weeks starting Oct. 17, 2010).
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Oct. 13, 2010: Yiddish Voice: Fyvush Finkel -- via MP3 (~50 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Aug 4, 2010: Interview with Zvi Griliches, President of the "Assistance for Lithuanian Jews" organization.
  
  
• July 21, 2010: Interview with historian Dovid Fishman about the recently published book 'Droshes un Ksovim', which Fishman edited and which contains the writings of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik.
  
  
• Apr. 7, 2010: Program for Yom Hashoah: Interview with Eva Fogelman, a child of survivors and a practicing psychologist in New York who was the writer and coproducer of the 1984 documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation after the Holocaust
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  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Apr. 7, 2010: Yiddish Voice: Eva Fogelman -- via MP3 (~9 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Mar. 3, 2010: Program in memory of Avrom Sutzkever, the great poet and writer, who died Jan. 20, 2010.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Mar. 3, 2010: Yiddish Voice: In Memory of Avrom Sutzkever -- via MP3 (~26 MB).
    To download, click here.
  Note: An extended version of Nowersztern's interview will be available here soon. Check back please. -YV, Mar. 4, 2010
  
  
• Feb. 3, 2010: Bob and Molly Freedman, founders of the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish Music at the University of Pennsylvania Library, interviewed
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Feb. 3, 2010: Yiddish Voice: Bob and Molly Freedman -- via MP3 (~10.5 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Dec. 16, 2009: Myer Loketch: Lekoved Khanike (rebroadcast; recorded and first aired in 2006)
  
  
• Dec. 9, 2009: Miriam Libenson (z"l): Lekoved Khanike (rebroadcast; recorded and first aired in 1995)
  
  
• Dec. 2, 2009: Dobe-Leye Caplan, producer and codirector of Shulamis at Harvard, interviewed.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Dec. 2, 2009: Yiddish Voice: Dobe-Leye Caplan -- via MP3 (~4.5 MB).
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• Nov. 11, 2009: Professor Zvi Gitelman interviewed.
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  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Nov. 11, 2009: Yiddish Voice: Professor Zvi Gitelman -- via MP3 (~14 MB).
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• Oct. 21, 2009: interview with Serious Man Yiddish actors Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson.
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  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Oct. 21, 2009: Yiddish Voice: Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman from Serious Man -- via MP3 (~15 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• September 23, 2009: Rabbi Simon Jacobson continues as the featured Yomim Noroim guest.
  
  
• September 16, 2009: Rabbi Simon Jacobson is our featured Yomim Noroim guest.
  
  
• Aug. 12, 2009: interview with Gennady Estraikh about his latest book, Yiddish and the Cold War.
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  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Aug. 12, 2009: Yiddish Voice: Gennady Estraikh -- via MP3 (~15 MB).
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• July 22, 2009: Program in Memory of Mordkhe Bauman, writer for the Algemeiner Journal, native of Poland, survivor of concentration camps, recent resident of Brookline.
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  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Jul. 22, 2009: Yiddish Voice: Mordkhe Bauman Ondenk Program -- via MP3 (~15 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  Program:
  • Mordkhe Bauman - excerpt: reading from his 2005 article in memory of Gershon Jacobson
  • Dovid Braun - reading his translation of Ruth Bauman's article in memory of her father Mordkhe Bauman
  • Grunia Kohn (friend, Yiddish Poet born in Grodne, now living in Montreal) - reading her article in memory of Mordkhe Bauman
  • Yosef-Yitzchok Jacobson, publisher/editor, Algemeiner Journal, interviewed by Mark David
  
  
  
• July 8, 2009: Asya Vaisman, Yiddish singer and songwriter as well as a PhD student at Harvard whose dissertation is on the Yiddish songs of Hasidic women.
  
  
• May 20, 2009: Meena-Lifshe Viswanath, Yugntruf
  
  
• Apr. 29, 2009: Israel Independence Day (Yom Haatsmaut): Anna Kolodner, Executive Director of The David Project, and Yitzchok Luden, Editor of Lebns-Fragn (Israeli Journal)
  
  
• Apr. 22, 2009: Yom HaShoah: Guest Aaron Bell (Bielski) of the Bielski Partisans (new interview; see also Jan. 14, 2009)
  
  
• Apr. 22, 2009: Yom HaShoah: Guest Anna Monka of the Bielski Partisans (repeat, with previously unbroadcast portions, of earlier interview; see Jan. 14, 2009)
  
  
• Mar. 25, 2009: Singer Theresa Tova; Iosif Lakhman: "MAYN SHOLEM ALEYKHEM"
  
  
• Feb. 11, 2009: We remember Pesach Fiszman, beloved Yiddish teacher to literally thousands of students over many decades, who died January 16, 2009, at age 80. Miriam Hoffman spoke with host Mark David about her friend of forty years.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Broadcast Excerpt:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Feb. 11, 2009: Yiddish Voice Interview: Miriam Hoffman: Pesach Fiszman z"l -- via MP3 (~12 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Feb 4, 2009: Interview with Mike Burstyn. Mike talks about his one-man-play Lansky, a new play about Meyer Lansky & the Law of Return, opening Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at the St. Luke's Theatre.

  Related links:

  • Youtube.com: IBA (Israel Broadcast Authority) Television: Meyer Lansky Interview 1971
  • Youtube.com: Meyer Lansky returns to the U.S. (1972)

  
  
  
• Jan. 14, 2009: The Bielski Brigade and Defiance (Movie). Opening this week, the Hollywood blockbuster film Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber, tells the story of the "Bielski Brigade", a partisan group in Belarus.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Broadcast Excerpt:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Jan. 14, 2009: Yiddish Voice Interviews: Bielsky Partisans: Sonya Oshman, Aaron Bell, and Anne Monka -- via MP3 (~29 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Dec. 31, 2008: Shloyshim (memorial) program in memory of Gertrude Brand.
  
  
• Dec. 3, 2008: Mumbai Tragedy (MUMBAY TRAGEDYE)
  During the past week, the Jewish world has been shocked by the events in Mumbai (Bombay), India, during which terrorists attacked the Mumbai Chabad Center and murdered five Jews inside, including the rabbi and his wife. Tonight's broadcast includes interviews with the following special guests: (Note: all interviews are in Yiddish.)
  • Meylekh Viswanath, was Urdu interpreter for Chabad and spoke with one of the terrorists during the first two days of the attack (Nov. 26/27)
  • Rabbi YY Jacobson, Editor, Algemeiner Journal, whose current issue contains extensive coverage of the Mumbai tragedy
  • Martin Rapaport, Chairman & CEO, The Rapaport Group, friend of the murdered couple who ran the Mumbai Chabad Center, at which he was guest on several occasions
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Dec 3, 2008: Mumbai Tragedy -- via MP3 (~29 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Oct. 29, 2008: Elie Wiesel at 80: Coverage of the just concluded 3-day conference at Boston University, A Celebration of Elie Wiesel in Honor of his 80th Birthday. Commentary and observations by hosts Iosif Lakhman, Misha Khazin, and Mark David, with contributions by the following invited Conference speakers: Rabbi Joseph Polak (BU Hillel); Rabbi Professor Dovid Weiss Halivni (world-acclaimed Talmudic scholar and childhood friend of Wiesel's); and the Hon. Irwin Cotler (Canadian M.P. and renowned international human rights lawyer)
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: October 29, 2008: BU Conference for Elie Wiesel's 80th Birthday -- via MP3 (~27 MB).
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• Jun. 18, 2008: interview with Motl Gordon.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available: Entire Broadcast:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: June 18, 2008: including an interview with Motl Gordon -- via MP3 (~22 MB).
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• Mar. 19, 2008: Purim program: highlights: World-premier broadcast of the reading of Betty Misheiker's long-form poem 'Der Feter Reb Zundl' by Reyzl Kirkel; greetings by Hasia Segal and Iosif Lakhman, and the telling of a joke lekoved purim by Yutsi Benes.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Clip Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: Mar. 19, 2008: Purim: Misheiker's 'Zundl', etc. -- via MP3 (~22 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Mar. 12, 2008: Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel and Rav Shayke Lerner of Chabad Center of Brookline present a Purim Program as special guests.
  
  
• Mar. 5, 2008: Shloyshim Program In Ondenk fun Gita Werchol
  Our "Shloyshim" (Memorial) program in memory of Gita Werchol, who passed away on January 28, 2008. On the program the following guests shared rememberances of Gita:
  • Hasia Segal, friend and cohost
  • Jake Schlitt, fellow writers group member
  • Harry Tilinger, son-in-law
  • Dovid Braun, friend
  In addition, recordings of Gita were heard, one from a speech at Yidish Vokh 2003, and one from an interview by Rebecca David, who'd done the interview in 2005 as a grade school student for a class project on European Jewish History, and in which Gita talks about her life before the war as a young student.
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Clip Available:
  
  • Listen to -- Yiddish Voice: For Gita Werchol -- via MP3 (~27 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• Feb. 6, 2008: Misha Khazin, interviewed by Iosif Lakhman, concerning his new book (in Russian) with essays and reminiscenses about Jewish life in Moldova.
  
  
• Oct. 10, 2007: In Ondenk fun Zelde-Leye Manuel (Dovid Braun's Muter)
  Our "Shloyshim" (Memorial) program in memory of Zelde-Leye Manuel (English name: Shirley), who passed away on August 31, 2007, was presented.

  Zelde-Leye was the mother of our friend and collaborator, and world-renowned authority on Yiddish, Dovid Braun. She herself was a well-known and beloved fixture on the Yiddish cultural scene around New York, in which she actively and enthusiastically took part during the past several decades.

  On the program the following guests shared rememberances of Zelde-Leye and words of condolence for Dovid:

  • Hasia Segal
  • Gita Werchol
  • Iosif Lakhman
  • Lillian Leavitt
  • Helen Gritz
  • Gella Schweid-Fishman
  • Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Clip Available:
  
  • Listen to the main segment -- Yiddish Voice: For Zelde-Leye Manuel -- via MP3 (~18 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  
• 5 Sep. 2007 - Rosh Hashone Program, with greetings from
  • Hasia Segal
  • Leye Leavitt
  • Sholem Beinfeld
  • Elke Kellman
  • Iosif Lakhman
  • Yisroel Arbeiter
  • Sheva Zucker
  • Sponsors:
    • BLER Travel (Shimshon Erenfeld)
    • The Butcherie (Max Gellerman)
    • Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek)
    • Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund (Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)
  and, from our archive: a 1997 interview with (Boston) North Shore Baal Tefilla Avrom Cohen and a 1997 interview the late, great Yiddish linguist Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (a"h) regarding Yidish far di Yomim Noroim.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Clip Available:
  
  • Listen to the main segment -- Yiddish Voice: Rosh Hashone 5768 -- via MP3 (~18 MB).
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• 29 Aug. 2007 - Interview with Rivka Basman, by Hasia Segal
  
  
• 8 Aug. 2007 - a segment in memory of Percy (Peretz) Brand, late great concert violinist, performed in Libau, Latvia before the war, then survived concentration camps and performed on German radio and in German DP camps after the war, then in Boston, MA, on radio and in concerts for decades after the war.
  
  
• Aug. 8, 2007 - in memory of Khazn Shimen Kandler, our dear late friend and frequent contributer to The Yiddish Voice for years during the mid to late 1990's, for his sixth yortsayt. Presented by Hasia Segal.
  
  
• 28 March 2007: Rev. Myer Loketch (Young Israel, Brookline), et al: Lekoved Shvues - Shvues (Shavuot) Program.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Clip Available:
  
  • Listen to the main segment -- Loketch: Lekoved Shvues -- via MP3 (~10 MB).
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• 2 May 2007: Iosif Lakhman: - Lekoved dem 130stn geburtstog fun Mordkhe Gebirtig (a program for the 130th birthday of Yiddish poet/songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig)
  
  
• 18 April 2007: Norman Berman, Linda Gritz, Ellie Kellman, and Ruby Poltorak talk about and preview their upcoming performance for the Workmen's Circle commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in music, poetry, and narration.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to the main segment (WC performers) via MP3 (~10 MB).
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• 28 March 2007: Rev. Myer Loketch (Young Israel, Brookline), et al: Lekoved Pesach - Passover program.
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  
  • Listen to the show MP3 format (~26 MB).
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    PRESS RELEASE:

    Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel in Brookline will discuss Passover, in Yiddish, as a special guest of Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show The Yiddish Voice, WUNR 1600 AM (Brookline/Boston), on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Info: (617) 730-8484, radio@yv.org, www.yiddishvoice.com.

  
  
  
• 21 March 2007: Shloyshim Program for Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  Program in memory of Mordkhe Schaechter
  • Listen to the show MP3 format (~25 MB).
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  • PRESS RELEASE:
    

    The Yiddish Voice:
    Program in Memory of Mordkhe Schaechter Z"L
    
    WUNR 1600 AM/Boston - Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 7:30 to 8:30 PM
    
    The Boston Yiddish-language radio show The Yiddish Voice will present
    a program in memory of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, following Shloyshim,
    thirty days of mourning, on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 7:30 PM on
    WUNR 1600 AM radio in Boston, and also livestreamed on the web at
    yiddishvoice.com. Mordkhe Schaechter, who passed away on February 15
    at age 79, was widely considered the leading Yiddish language expert
    of his day, and promoted use and knowledge of Yiddish over decades as
    a writer, educator, editor, publisher, and leading participant in
    various organizations, projects, and publications devoted to Yiddish.
    
    The show will feature an introduction by Yiddish expert Dovid Braun
    and his interviews with Itzik Gottesman, Associate Editor of the
    Yiddish Forward and Schaechter's nephew; Joshua (Shikl) Fishman,
    renowned sociolinguist and long-time friend, colleague, and
    collaborator of Schaechter's; and Meinhard Mayer, Professor Emeritus
    of Physics and Mathematics at UC Irvine and friend of Schaechter's
    from their school days in Czernowitz.  Excerpts of past interviews
    with Schaechter on The Yiddish Voice will be heard, and regular
    cohosts Meyer Dovid and Hasia Segal will also participate.
    
    The Yiddish Voice ("Dos Yidishe Kol" in Yiddish) is a weekly Yiddish
    language radio show broadcast on WUNR 1600 AM, Wednesdays, 7:30 - 8:30
    PM. For further information, visit the web site: yiddishvoice.com,
    email radio@yv.org, or call 1-617-730-8484.

  
  
  
• 7 March 2007 and 14 March 2007: Michael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch, interviewed by Iosif Lakhman.
  
  
• 13 December 2006 and 20 December 2006: Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel in Brookline discusses Hanukkah, including selected aspects of its Halachos and Minhogim, and shares reminiscences of Hanukkah in his youth in Eastern Europe.
  
  
  
  
  
• 25 October 2006 - Yiddish Voice: Elvira David Shloyshim-Memorial Program
  On WUNR 1600 AM, Weds., Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, at 7:30 PM

  
  [Audio/MP3:] Audio Available:
  First Program (Oct. 25, 2006)

  • Download entire main program segment in MP3 format. [approx 40 min.] (23 MB)

  
  Second Program (Nov. 1, 2006)

  • Download entire main program segment in MP3 format. [approx 30 min.]

  
  

    PRESS RELEASE:
  
    The Yiddish Voice, Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show,
    mourns the passing of Elvira David, who died on September 14, 2006,
    at age 75.  Elvira David, the mother of the show's host and producer
    Mark David, was born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, on September 22,
    1930, and moved to Chust, Hungary, in 1940. Her family was deported
    to Auschwitz by the Germans in 1944, and she and one sister were the
    only survivors among their immediate family.  A few years after the
    war, she and her sister were taken in by relatives in New York. She
    finished high school, then attended Hood College, earning a degree
    in Chemistry, and eventually settled in Chicago, where she met her
    husband Fred David. From the 1950's through the 1980's, the couple
    raised a family and ran a business.  In the late 1980's, they moved
    to Los Angeles, where she died on September 14, 2006, after an
    extraordinarily long bout with Shy-Drager Syndrome, a neurological
    illness similar to Parkinson's Disease.
  
    A Shloyshim Memorial Program for Elvira David will be broadcast on
    The Yiddish Voice, in two parts on successive Wednesdays, October 25
    and November 1, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., on WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline
    (Boston), MA, and live streamed on the web at
    http://yiddishvoice.com, with the expected participation of some
    members of her family, including her son Mark David and sister Hedy
    Reisman, as well several of the show's regular contributors,
    including Dovid Braun, Iosif Lakhman, Hasia Segal, and Rev. Myer
    Loketch of Young Israel of Brookline, who will give a Dvar Torah.
    For further information, visit the radio show's web site,
    yiddishvoice.com, or call: 1-617-730-8484.
  

  
  
  
• 11 October 2006
  • Iosif Lakhman: In ondenk fun Osher Shvartsman tsu zayn geboyren tog
  • Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel Congregation in Brookline, MA: Lekoved Sukes
  
  
• 23 August 2006: interview with Simcha Simchovitch, Toronto-based Yiddish writer, poet, essayist, journalist, librarian, and curator, discussing his life and work.
  
  
• 16 August 2006: Iosif Lakhman presents historical background on the Yiddish writers executed on orders from Stalin on August 12, 1952, with selected readings from their work.
  
  
• 9 August 2006: in memory of the Yiddish writers executed on orders from Stalin on August 12, 1952, the Toronto-based Yiddish writer Simcha Simchovitch reads an historic protest letter he wrote and that was printed in the French Yiddish press in 1949.
  
  
• 19 July 2006: Israel-Lebanon war coverage:
  • Yitzkhok Luden, the Yiddish Forward's well-known correspondent in Israel and the editor of Lebns Fragen, talks about the current conflict in Israel
  • Khane Kolodner, educational director of the David Project, speaking about the organization and current conflict in Israel
  
  
  
• 12 July 2006: Gil Kremer, a musician Israel originally from the former Soviet Union, is interviewed by phone by Iosif Lakhman, and we hear selections from his recently released CD.
  
  
• 21 June 2006: Zalmen Srebro Z"L, former Chairman of the Yiddish Culture Club of Boston, passed away on May 19, 2006.

  The Yiddish Voice presented a Shloyshim (Memorial) program for Zalmen Srebro z"l on the June 21, 2006, broadcast.
  Thanks to the following participants:

  • Iosif Lakhman
  • Hasia Segal
  • Dovid Braun
  • Nora Bogot
  • Mark Murstein
  • Lillian Shporer Leavitt
  .

  [Audio:]

  • [Audio/MP3:] Listen to the engineer's recording of the show (recorded from the "engineer's console"), in MP3 format (12 MB).
    To download, click here.
  
  
  Thanks to the following sponsors of this special program in memory of Zalmen Srebro:
  • Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston's Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund
  • The Butcherie, Boston's kosher supermarket, at 428 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446, Tel 617-731-9888 Fax 617-730-5577
  • Israel Book Shop, Boston's premier Jewish book store, at 410 Harvard St., Brookline, MA 02446, Tel. (617) 566-7113 or 1-800-323-7723
  • Boston Workmen's Circle, the address for Yiddish in Boston, at 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA 02445
  
  Links: Boston Globe Brief Obituary (May 20, 2006) --- Boston Globe Featured Obituary (June 4, 2006, registration may be required)
  
  
• 14 June 2006: Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson, editor of the Algemeiner Journal, in an interview on various topics, including the 12th yortsayt of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the subject of his upcoming invited speech at Young Israel of Brookline.
  
  
• 24 May 2006: Hasia Segal: a report from Kings Point: musings about the winter Yiddish-cultural scene in South Florida, including interviews with some of the locals.
  
  
• 4 May 2006: Rabbi Moshe Waldoks of Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, MA, who is this year's chairman for this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 14, 2006, 2:00 p.m. at Faneuil Hall in Boston, talks about plans for the event and its importance for the community.
  
  
• 26 April 2006: Yom Hashoah memorial program; interview with Harvard Yiddish-studies graduate student Asye Vaisman
  
  
• 12 April 2006 and 19 April 2006: Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel Congregation in Brookline, MA, continues his talk on Pesach Halochos, Minhogim, and reminiscences of Pesach in the pre-WWII Poland of his childhood. Also, Hasia Segal sends her Pesach greetings, and shares reminiscences Pesach in the pre-WWII Lithuania of her youth. We also hear greetings and announcements for the Holiday from various sponsors and friends of Dos Yidishe Kol. And the musical background is Pesach music.
  We closed our April 19 program with a short segment relating to Yom Hashoah, announcing various upcoming community memorial observances, and with the late beloved Khazn Shimen Kandler's beautiful recording (1994) of Sutzkever's Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern, accompanied by Norma Levine on the piano. (Yom Hashoah/Holocaust memorial programming continues on the next program, April 26, 2006.)
  
  
• 29 March 2006: Rev. Myer Loketch of Young Israel Congregation in Brookline, MA, discusses selected aspects of the Halachos of Pesach and Pesach Minhogim, and also shares reminiscences of Pesach in the pre-WWII Poland of his youth, in a series of special-guest segments for Passover 2006 on Dos Yidishe Kol.
  
  
• 8 March 2006: for Purim: discussion of and examples of Jewish humor by Hasia Segal, with jokes contributed by Sholom Beinfeld, Iosif Lakhman, and others.
  
  
• 11 January 2006: Yekhiel Shraybman Z"L: The Yiddish Voice mourns the passing of the Bessarabian Yiddish writer Yekhiel Shraybman (Ikhil Shraibman), who died on Dec. 9, 2005, in Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova), at age 93. Shraybman was practically the last active member of the prewar generation of Soviet Yiddish writers still living in the former Soviet Union.
  
  Just weeks before his passing, Shraybman was interviewed by Misha Khazin, a friend, colleague, and former coresident of Kishinev, and Iosif Lakhman for The Yiddish Voice by phone. The interview, which was broadcast on November 24, 2005, included a reading of two of his most recently composed prose miniatures. Shraybman said one of the miniatures was recently submitted for publication in _Afn Shvel_, the Yiddish periodical on whose editorial board he served for many years, while the other was from a forthcoming book of new "minyaturn" he had just completed
  
  Shloyshim Memorial Program - Weds., Jan. 11, 2006
  A Shloyshim/Memorial Program for Yekhiel Shraybman was broadcast on The Yiddish Voice, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., on WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline (Boston), MA, and live streamed on the web at http://yiddishvoice.com, with the participation of:
  • Iosif Lakhman (Yiddish Voice cohost; writer, Yiddish Forward);
  • Misha Khazin (writer/journalist in Boston, formerly of Kishinev);
  • Sheva Zucker (Executive Director of the League for Yiddish; Editor, Afn Shvel),
  • Boris Sandler (Editor, Yiddish Forward).
  
  
• 24 November 2005 -- Yekhiel Shraybman, the renowned Yiddish writer from Keshenev, Moldova, reads two recently written short essays ("miniaturn"), and he and his wife Marina chat with Iosif Lakhman and Misha Khazin.
• 26 October 2005 -- interview with Sheva Zucker, new executive director of the League for Yiddish, about the organization and the latest issue of its publication Afn Shvel
• 7 September 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina - interviews - with former New Orleans resident, and now refugee, Shep Zitler - and with assistance provider Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky of Chabad of Houston.
• 10 August 2005 -- Iosif Lakhman and Misha Khazin: In Ondenk fun di Umgekumene in Ratn Farband dem 12tn Oygust 1952
• 3 August 2005 --Tsvi Menshel, head of the Survivors of Khust (Chust) and Vicinity (in Israel), interviewed by Mark David about Khust, his home town, the fate of its Jews, and efforts to help survivors and preserve memory. Khust is now part of Ukraine but has in past times been part of Austro-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and, during WWII, Hungary. Jews had lived productively in Khust for hundreds of years. In the spring of 1944, the Jews of Khust were forced into ghettos, and soon thereafter forcibly placed on deportation trains bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 24, May 26, June 2, and June 6 of 1944. Upon their arrival, most were killed by the German Nazis. The rest were taken as slave laborers and were beaten and starved. Very few of them survived.
  
  
• Leahke Post Z"L: Leah Carrey, known as Leahke Post in her role as cohost of Ben Gailing's (Boston Yiddish) radio show for many years, has died. The Yiddish Voice had numerous personal ties to Leahke and her family, and we were fortunate to present her on the air through two interviews in the early 1990's. Our sympathies to Leahke's son Henry Carrey.

  Leah Post Carrey Z"L -- Shloyshim Memorial Program - July 20, 2005
  A shloyshim program in memory or Leah Post Carrey will be broadcast on July 20, 2005, on The Yiddish Voice (DOS YIDISHE KOL), on WUNR 1600 AM, Boston/Brookline, at 7:30 p.m. Featuring excerpts of interviews of Leahke, and reminscences by

  • Hasia Segal, friend and cohost of The Yiddish Voice
  • Gladys Heitin, long-time friend and veteran Boston Workmen's Circle member and leader
  • Henry Carrey, son
  • Mascha Benya-Matz, master interpreter of Yiddish art- and folk songs and long-time friend

  
  Special thanks to Leah's son Henry Carrey for making available for this broadcast certain rare archival musical recordings of Leahke Post

  Thanks to the following sponsors of this special program:

  • The Workmen's Circle - Boston District
    1762 Beacon Street
    Brookline, MA 02445
    phone: 617-566-6281
    
    
  • BLER Travel, 420 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446, Tel. 617-738-0500 or 1-800-399-8467

  Items of Related Interest:
  • Obituary details from The Boston Globe:

    Leah (Post) Carrey:
    
    On June 16, 2005, in NYC, formerly of Boston. Beloved wife of the late Abraham Carrey. Mother of Henry of NYC & the late David. Funeral Services in NY. Burial on Sunday, June 19, 11:15 a.m. Sharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA. Shiva Sunday, Monday & Tuesday at the home of Gladys Heitin. Donations in her memory to Workmen's Circle Chorus of Boston, Nat'l. Yiddish Book Ctr., Amherst, MA 01002 Published in the Boston Globe on 6/17/2005.

  • IMDB Entry for Leah Carrey, crediting her for playing the role of Grandma in Woody Allen's 1987 film Radio Days
    
    
  • Photo: Leah Post Carrey with Seth Green and Joy Newman, fellow members of the cast of Radio Days, in 1987
    
  • Photo: Leah Post Carrey, at about age 50, from her 1960's publicity photo.
    
• July 13, 2005 -- Shloyshim memorial program for Lillian Lux Z"L -- featuring recordings with Lux and other members of her famed "4 Bursteins" acting family, excerpts of our exclusive 2001 in-studio interview with Lux, and interviews with:
  • Fyvush Finkel (emmy-winning actor and long-time friend)
  • Gedaliah Breier (Yiddish Theatrical Alliance president and long-time friend)
  • Moishe Rosenfeld (Yiddish theatre impresario and long-time friend)
  • Mina Bern (Yiddish theatre star and long-time friend)
  • Mike Burstyn (Yiddish/Israeli/American theatre/film/television actor; singer; son of Lillian Lux and Pesachke Burstein)
• July 6, 2005 -- Shloyshim memorial program for Gershon Jacobson Z"L -- In addition to excerpts of previous interviews with Jacobson, the show featured interviews with:
  • Rabbi Yosef-Yitzchok Jacobson (son, writer for the Algemeiner Journal)
  • Mordkhe Bauman (writer for the Algemeiner Journal)
  • Moshe Loyev (writer for the Algemeiner Journal)
• May 18, 2005 -- Mina Bern, in an inteview with Dovid Braun, discusses her life in the Yiddish Theater, and her upcoming one-woman show A Life on the Stage, at the Folksbiene on Sunday May 22nd, 2:00 PM
• April 27, 2005 -- Guest in studio: Hans Breuer, Yiddish folksinger from Austria and subject of a new book (see next listing) - interview and music from his forthcoming CD
• Apr. 13, 2005 Interview with singer/actress Genia Fajerman, from Israel, about her career and her upcoming concert tour of the US, which will bring her to Boston on April 24, 2005; and an interview with former Publisher's Weekly publisher Fred Ciporen regarding Shlemiel Crooks, the recently published children's book for Passover.
• Mar. 23, 2005 (erev-erev Purim):
  Lekoved Purim: our first annual Yiddish Humor night -
  DO JOKES SOUND BETTER IN YIDDISH? Find out ... with special guests:
  • Hasia Segal (co-host of The Yiddish Voice, presenter on A Taste of Passover and A Taste of Chanukah)
  • Moshe Waldoks (co-author of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion)
  • Martin Davidson (producer of Rechnitzer Rejects)
  • and others....
• Feb. 2, 2005 -- Izzy Arbeiter, President of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston, in an Interview by Iosif Lakhman
• Dec. 15, 2004 - Yuri Vedenyapin, interviewed by Hasia Segal and Iosif Lakhman.
• Nov. 17, 2004 - Shloyshim Memorial Program for Miriam Libenson Z"L, with the participation of Hasia Segal, Dovid Braun, Shimen Simons, and others who know her well.
  Yiddish Voice 11-17-04 Broadcast in Memory of Miriam Libenson
  
  
  
  

  Borukh Dayen Emes.... Miriam Libenson Z"L
  
  17 November 2004: Yiddish Voice 11-17-04 Broadcast in Memory of Miriam Libenson: On our Wednesday, Nov. 17. 2004 broadcast, we honored the memory of Miriam Libenson with a special program.
  

  
  Thanks to the following sponsors of this special program:

  • Congregation Mishkan Tefila
    Dr. Michael Menitoff, Rabbi
    Chestnut Hill, MA
  • Dr. David Gordis
    President
    Hebrew College
    Newton, MA
  • Marcia Katz-Slotnick
    Campain Director
    Hebrew SeniorLife (formerly Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged)
    Roslindale, MA

  Earlier announcement:

  17 October 2004: We've just received the sad news that our friend and long-time contributor to The Yiddish Voice Miriam Libenson has passed away. She was just over ninety years old. She lived her last years in Israel, which she always called "home". Miriam Libenson was our radio program's resident poet as well as our main commentator on religious and Jewish-holiday matters. Our collection of her recordings are one of the crowns of our show's archives and are played regularly to this day. They were filled with Jewish knowledge, highlighted by memories of her youth in her shtetl Aniksht (Lithuania), and usually accompanied by her own original Yiddish poetry -- she'd written poetry her whole life. She will be greatly missed by all our volunteers and listeners. Most significantly, she was a lifelong friend of our cohost Hasia Segal. Our deepest sympathy to her sons Michael and Eli, and all her family. Further information and details will posted soon. We will present a shloyshim memorial program on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 on The Yiddish Voice (WUNR 1600 AM) at 7:30 p.m.

• Nov. 10, 2004 - Dovid Katz - interview about his new book, Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
• 29 Sept. 2004 - Aaron Lansky is our guest. He's just come out with a new book, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventure of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books.
• 22 Sept. 2004 - A Gmar Khsime Toyve! Lekoved Yom Kiper. featuring Rav Chaim Ciment's (of the Lubavitz Yeshiva, Brookline)
• 15 Sept. 2004 - A gut yor! Lekoved Roshashone/yomkiper - Greetings and wishes for the new year, featuring Rav A. B. Shurin
• 8 Sept. 2004 - A gut yor! Lekoved Roshashone/yomkiper - Miriam Libenson's 1996 talk about Roshashone is featured.
• Weds., 25 Aug. 2004 Iosif Lakhman interviews poet and Indiana University Yiddish language and literature professor Dov-Ber Kerler
• August 11 2004: Iosif Lakhman: 12 August 1952: In memory of the Murdered Yiddish Writers.
• Weds., 18 Aug. 2004 Cohost Iosif Lakhman interviews Vladimir Yedidovitch, founder of the Russian Forward.
• August 4, 2004: Iosif Lakhman interviews Misha Khazin on Besarabian Yiddish writers
• July 7, 2004: Raphael Goldwasser interviewed about his Yiddish cultural, especially theater, activities in Alsace (France).
• June 30, 2004: Heather Valencia interviewed about her recently published translation of the London Yiddish Theatre sensation (circa WWII) The King of Lampedusa (DER KEYNIK FUN LAMPEDUSE)
• June 23, 2004: Avrom Nowersztern, interviewed by Hasia Segal
• June 16, 2004: In memory of Rabbi David Neiman Z"L -- Cohost Hasia Segal offers words in memory of the well-known Rabbi and scholar who died in Feb., 2004, in Los Angeles. With a rebroadcast her 1991 interview with Rabbi Neiman. Sponsored by Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, Mass.
• 19 May 2004 - interview with Yiddish impresario Moishe Rosenfeld, producer of the gala Neil Sedaka/Klezmatics Gala Concert in Carnegie Hall, June 3, 2004, to benefit the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
  
  
• May 5, 2004 Interview with Haike Beruriah Wiegand, Yiddish scholar from Kings College, London; and Interview (Part 2) with Yitskhok Niborski and Sholem Rozenberg
  
  
• April 28, 2004 Interview (Part 1) with Yitskhok Niborski (Director, Medem Library, Paris, and author of Yiddish dictionaries), with Sholem Rozenberg, also of the Medem Library
  
  
• February 18, 2004 Interview with Lilke Meisner, Yiddish writer, and the leader of the Yiddish Culture Club of Los Angeles.
  
  
• Nov. 5, 2003: shloyshim memorial program for Gershon Winer, who died Erev Yom Kippur in Israel. Participants: Dov Noy (Hebrew University), Sheva Zucker (Duke University), Seymour Kass (UMass Boston). Excerpt from an interview with Winer previously conducted by Hasia Segal for The Yiddish Voice. Presenter is Hasia Segal. / a shloyshim program in ondenk fun gershon vayner z"l, vos iz nifter gevorn erev yom kiper in yisroel. es bateylikn zikh: Dov Noy (Hebrew University), Sheva Zucker (Duke University), Shimen Kass (UMass Boston). Me hert oykh an oystsug fun an intervyu gemakht gevorn fun Hasia Segal far der program "dos yiddishe kol".
  
  
• September 3, 2003: Interview with Zachary Sholem Berger, publisher and translator of the new Yiddish 'The Cat in the Hat' (Di Kats Der Payats).
  
• July 30, 2003: Interview with Shmuel Bak. Bak began his artistic career as a "vunderkind" of the Vilna Ghetto, attracting the support and admiration of such cultural luminaries as Avrom Sutzkever, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Herman Kruk. Since surviving those perilous years, he's become a world renowned painter who has had over 200 solo exhibitions throughout the world.
• 27 November 2002: interview with Theodore Bikel, legendary singer, actor, and social activist, whose autobiography has recently been reissued in paperback.
• 20 November 2002: Seymour Rexite z"l shloyshim memorial program, with guest interviews (with Henry Sapoznik, Caraid O'Brien, and others), and recordings in memory of the late, great Yiddish actor, singer, and radio personality.
• 13 November 2002: interview with Benjamin Harshav, Yale University, editor of The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the new translation of Herman Kruk's Vilner Ghetto diary. Also with readings from the English translation by the book's translator, Barbara Harshav.
  Reading (English/Yiddish) and Interview (Yiddish)
  
  
• 23 Oct. 2002: from the archives, a 1995 interview with Miriam Hoffman (Forverts writer, playright, theater director, educator), who talks about the contemporary Yiddish theater scene.
  
  
• 28 August 2002: Dovid Braun talks with Szulim Rozenberg of the Medem Bibliotek (Paris), discussing among other things the forthcoming (Oct. '02) publication his wife's memoir: Girl With Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941 to 1945, an English translation from the original Yiddish.
  Interview with Szulim Rozenberg
  
  
• 31 July 2002: The Yiddish Voice rebroadcast the May 1995 interview with Misha Alexandrovich for the shloyshim (30 days) since his passing. Alexandrovich was one of the greatest cantors of the 20th century. He died at age 87 on July 3, 2002, in Munich, Germany.
  Interview with Alexandrovich, by Hasia Segal
  
  
• 20 February 2002: Josh Waletzky, discussing his new Yiddish music CD Crossing the Shadows/Ariber Di Shotns
• 13 February 2002 Interview with Mendy Cahan, director of the Vilne Yiddish Program
• 7 November 2001 Music of the Burstein family, and a live, in-studio interview with Lillian Lux, matriarch of the family. Also: Hasia Segal: introducing the new Yiddish literary journal from Israel: Toppelpunkt
• 31 October 2001 Interview of Lillian Lux, by Hasia Segal, about the documentary about her family (The Bursteins) "The Komediant".
• 5 September 2001 In memory of Khazn Shimen Kandler (Cantor Simon Kandler) [family-prepared, detailed obituary], Cantor Emeritus of Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA, who passed away Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at the age of 100.
  Program features:
  • Hasia Segal (Host, worked with Cantor Kandler for more than 30 years)
  • Rev. Myer Loketch (Shamus, Temple Young Israel, Brookline, MA, and family friend);
  • Cantor Morton Shames (Cantor, Temple Beth-El, Springfield, MA, and long-time friend of Cantor Kandler);
  • Cantor Morton Shanuk (Cantor Emeritus, Temple Beth-El, Swampscott, MA, and long-time friend of Cantor Kandler)
  • many recordings of the music of Cantor Kandler, including an exclusive recording of a Shabes-Nign learned from the family of the late world-renouned cantor Yosele Rosenblatt; and
  • a rare recording or the late Cantor Gregor (Grisha) Shelkan, raised in the same city, Libave, in Latvia (Yiddish name: _Lyepay'_ or _Liba've_, German name: Libau, Latvian name: _Liepa`ja_) as Cantor Kandler, and a close friend, singing a Yiddish song learned in their common home town

  The following death notice appeared in the The New York Times:

  August 9, 2001, Thursday

  KANDLER-Simon, Hazzan Dr. The Cantors Assembly records with sorrow the passing of our oldest colleague and revered member of over five decades. A brilliant cantor with a magnificent voice, he quietly and gently served the spiritual needs of his temple Beth Emeth of Chestnut Hill, Mass., for almost 60 years with dignity, warmth and care. He was awarded an Honorary Degree by the JTSA in 1998. His kindness, his humanity and his caring inspired us all. We extend our sympathy to his family and loved ones. May his memory abide as a blessing. Hazzan Sheldon Levin, President Hazzan Stephen J. Stein, Exec. VP Hazzan Abraham B. Shapiro Executive Administrator

• 29 August 2001 Interviews from Yiddish Vokh 2001: Hy Wolf, Yiddish actor and activist, talks with Hasia Segal. Motl Rosenbush talks with Mark David about the Svives project of the Yugntruf organization. Featuring music from Josh Waletsky's new CD Ariber Di Shotns.
• 8 August 2001 Abraham Brumberg talks with Mark David about the new book Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (Yale University Press, 2001), edited by Joshua Rubinstein. Also presenting the poetry of Soviet writers.
• 27 June 2001 Interview with Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who discusses the Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Project of the World Jewish Congress. Random House has pledged $1 million to the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project set up by the World Jewish Congress to find and publish the written accounts of those who suffered under the Nazis during World War II. Elie Wiesel, the author of ''Night,'' a memoir of Auschwitz, among many other works, will serve as honorary chairman of the project.
  Further Information:
  

  Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Project
  The World Jewish Congress
  501 Madison Avenue
  New York, NY  10022
  <survivorsmemoirs@aol.com>
  (914) 722-1880
  

• 6 June 2001 Interview with Abraham Brumberg and selections from his latest CD recording of Yiddish poetry and english translations.
  
  
• More Rundowns - Click Here.

Sholom Aleichem!

(above: the writer Sholom Aleichem)

12 Iyar 5756 / 1 May 1996 sholem aleykhem leyent for! tsum 80tn yortsayt funem grestn yidishn shrayber fun ale yidishe shraybers presentirn mir dem zeltenem rekordirtn klang funem mekhaber aleyn, forleyendik fun zayn mayses "ven ikh bin rotshild" un "a freylekher yontev", fun a disk vos er hot rekordirt in nyu york shpet in lebn, vos ligt in di arkhivn fun YIVO. oykh musik un mayses geshribn fun im oder basirt af zayn verk / In honor of the 80th year since the passing of the greatest of all Yiddish writers, we present the rare recorded sound of the author himself, reading from his stories "If I Were Rothschild [a rich man]" and "A Happy Holiday", from a record he recorded late in his life, which is now part of the YIVO Sound Archive. Also, we present music and stories written by him or based on his work.

Sholom Aleichem reads out loud!

Click on the above link to hear the voice of Sholom Aleichem reading, with an introduction by Henry Sapoznik <sapoznik@aol.com>, founder and former head of the YIVO Sound Archive, from his May, 1991, Forward Hour (Forverts Sho) radio broadcast.

Favorite Quotations

"There's a big difference between `dead' and `dying'." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Sept. 1, 2007: Yiddish Voice Receives CJP Grant.: The Yiddish Voice radio show is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of US$2,500.00 from the Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for the coming year (2007-2008). The Yiddish Voice hopes to use the grant to make current programming as well as portions of its archive more widely available.
• July 23, 2005: Yiddish Voice Receives CJP Grant.: The Yiddish Voice radio show is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of US$1,000.00 from the Brookline-Brighton Jewish Community Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for the coming year (2005-2006). As one of just 14 organizations, selected from an applicant pool of 34 organizations, to receive a portion of funds totalling US$40,650.00, the Yiddish Voice will use the grant to help operate, expand, improve Boston's award-winning Yiddish-language radio show, its associated web site yiddishvoice.com, and related activities and projects.
• Internationale Medienhilfe (IMH): Radio Show of the Year 1998 (Radioprogramm des Jahres: The Yiddish Voice) awarded to The Yiddish Voice in 1999.
• Naamat (Di Froyen Pioneren/Pioneer Women) Boston Chapter: Person of the Year (2000) awarded to Mark David as Host/Producer of The Yiddish Voice.

Other Radio Shows of Interest

• RadioShalom's Yiddish Program, in Copenhagen, Denmark, is broadcast on the FM band, at 87.6 MHz, on the third Wednesday of each month at 18:30 (local time). Some shows are archived on their web site: go to radioshalom.dk, then click on link "Yiddish" in the list labeled "Kategorier" along the left side of the page.
  
  
• New Yiddish Rep Radio - (Internet Radio) Every other Sunday at 6 PM EST With your hosts David Mandelbaum and Leyzer Burko. In Yiddish, English, and sometimes a mix of both.
  
  
• Kol Mevaser (Yiddish Broadcasting) [Wiki] - ultrafrum Yiddish "hotline broadcaster" (a kind of radio substitute via telephone). The number for Kol Mevaser: +1 (212) 444-1100. In addition, they have a Twitter feed (but it's in English): http://twitter.com/koimevaser
  
  
• Winnipeg Jewish Radio Hour. There is Jewish radio programming in Winnipeg every Sunday on radio station CKJS, 810AM, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM Central time. It can be heard online at www.ckjs.com. The first half hour is in English. The second half, from 2:00 to 2:30, is in Yiddish, hosted by Rochelle Zucker. There's also complete archive of all shows available for download: Click here for the Winnipeg Jewish Radio Hour archive.
  
  
• HaMakor & Anthology of Jewish Music, CFRO-FM 102.7 (Vancouver Cooperative Radio), Vancouver, B.C. CANADA, Sundays, 10-11 AM, "highlights the Ashkenazi and Sephardic cultures, including Yiddish and Hebrew selections". hosted by Alan Tapper and Ethan Minovitz.
  
  
• Judaiques FM sur 94.8 - in France, a full-time Jewish radio show, primarily in the French language, but also featuring some Yiddish programming, including this: De 22h20 a 23h00: "UNZER MAGAZINE", le magazine Yiddish de Judaiques fm prisentie par Arielle Sion en alternance avec "Mayses un melodihs" prisentie igalement par Arielle Sion. The broadcasts can be heard live over the internet from the station's web site at http://www.judaiquesfm.com.
  
  
• 3ZZZ (92.3 FM) - in Melbourne Australia, the country's largest ethnic community station, broadcasts in Yiddish every Sunday from 11.00am to 11.30am. The broadcasts are archived and can be heard over the internet from the station's web site at http://www.3zzz.com.au. From there select "Jewish [SUN 11-12noon]" under the "LISTEN TO A SHOW" menu. Yiddish news of the week from 3ZZZ can be heard at the website of The Australian Jewish News (www.ajn.com.au).
  
  
• The Barry Reisman Show - in Philadelphia. Heard Monday through Thursday, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. on WNWR 1540 AM.
  
  
• Portland Yiddish Hour - From Portland, Oregon, Jack Falk reports:

  Since 1979, Portlanders have enjoyed the Sunday morning Yiddish Hour (10-11 am, KBOO 90.7 FM), hosted by Jack "Yankl" Falk and Reva Falk. The program features a diverse selection of traditional and contemporary Jewish music: klezmer, chassidic, cantorial, Yiddish theatre and folk, Israeli pop, Mizrahi chafla, Ladino, Jewish classical, yeshiva rock, Judeo-Arabic, and whatever else we would want to share with our friends. For more information: radio@yankl.com

  
  
  
• Yiddish Radio in Argentina: Mit Lid un Vort, Saturdays, 9 - 10 PM, Radio Jai, 96.3 FM, presented by Shoshana Nejama Szostak, who's originally from Argentina but lives and creates the radio program in Jerusalem. Featuring News, commentary, music, all in Yiddish. You can always hear the most recent program of the week online at the Radio Jai web site: http://www.radiojai.com.ar. (Find the picture of Shoshana, and click on it to start listening.)
  
  
• Chagigah, a Jewish radio show heard every Sunday in Boston, features "Jewish", in practice mostly Yiddish, music during it's first hour, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The second two hours, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., are mostly filled with Israeli pop music and announcements in Hebrew and English. On WERS 88.9 FM, Boston, MA, from the campus of Emerson College.
  
  
• The Yiddish Hour (Di Yidishe Sho) broadcasts Sundays from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM every Sunday (per its Fall 2007 schedule), hosted by the mother-daughter team of Peraleh and Judaleh, on WBRS 100.1 FM ("Bris FM"), Waltham, MA, from the campus of Brandeis University. Some history: the show was founded by the host/producer of The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol), Mark David, who ran it from December, 1990, until July, 1994. It was originally an all-Yiddish show. Today, it plays all Yiddish music with announcements in both Yiddish and English.
  
  
• Kol Yisrael fun Yerushalayim (Yiddish Broadcast Service of Kol Israel, Jerusalem).

  IBA Ends Most Shortwave Broadcasts As Of April 2008
  After some 60 years shortwave broadcasts by the IBA (Israel Broadcast Authority)'s Kol Israel - The Voice of Israel, in Yiddish and many other languages, ended on March 31, 2008 (except for broadcasts in Persian to Iran). Kol Israel broadcasts may now be heard only via the Internet: http://www.iba.org.il/world/

  Local reception in Israel is still possible on regular radios by tuning in the REQA network. Consult israelradio.org for details.

  In addition, Live Restream: 2X Daily Rebroadcast of Kol Israel Yiddish radio show: through WRN (World Radio Network) Deutsch.
  
  

• Australia's excellent SBS Yiddish Radio Program can be heard twice a week per these places/frequencies/times: (Yiddish site)

  Melbourne 1224am
  Sydney 1107am
  Wollongong 1485am
  Canberra 1440am
  Sunday 12 noon
  Wednesday 3pm
  
  National
  Sunday 1200 noon
  
  National Frequencies
  Adelaide 106.3fm
  Adelaide Foothills 95.1fm
  Bathurst 88.9fm
  Brisbane 93.3fm
  Darwin 100.9fm
  Hobart 105.7fm
  Newcastle & Hunter Valley 1413am
  Perth 96.9fm
  Wagga Wagga (NSW) 103.5fm
  Young (NSW) 98.7fm
  

  And you can also hear them online. Go to http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/yiddish for their Yiddish site, or http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/english for their English site, and click on link labelled LISTEN under the heading "Latest Broadcast", or any of the other content.
  
  
• A correspondent in nearby New Haven, Connecticut, writes, "for 50 years the Greater New Haven area has been blessed to be able to listen to and enjoy Beryl Howard's American Jewish Variety Hour. It is broadcast every Sunday morning, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., on WADS-690 on the AM dial. I write as a listener, not as part of the show."
  Update from our correspondent (6/19/01): after some 54 years his show is off the air because the small AM station WADS, Radio Amor, that he was on is in financial difficulty.
  Update from our correspondent (6/19/06): It is with great sadness that I report to you that Beryl Howard passed away early this year. Unfortunately I have no other details as to exact date etc.
  
  
• Mike Sherman does the Rejuvenating Heritage show on KEOS 89.1 FM, College Station, TX, Wednesdays, 7-8PM Central Time. He wrote to me, saying, "it's a one hour show. I do (typically) one half hour of Israeli rock/pop/folk, and one half hour of Yiddish swing, Klezmer, etc. You can see more info on my show, what I plan, etc., at http://stat.tamu.edu/~sher man/KEOS/Klezmershow.html".
  
  
• The Jewish Program, on the air since 1962, is heard in Montreal on Canadian station CFMB (AM) 1280/Montreal every Sunday from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., and on Wednesday/Thursday overnight at midnight for one hour (EST). On the Sunday show, the first hour and a half is in Yiddish and English, and the last half hour is in Hebrew; the Wednesday night show is in Hebrew. Host and senior producer Nachum Wilchesky <nachum22@hotmail.com> is a veteran Yiddish radio host, and one of the city's major Yiddish cultural figures. To listen to the station live, go to www.cfmb.ca, and click on "CFMB Live!" in the upper left corner of the page at 12:00 noon Sundays (Montreal time) for the Yiddish-language broadcast. (Note that the station's signal is strong enough to reach some US points as far south as Burlington, VT)
  Update July 20, 2009 from our friend Grunia Kohn: sadly, Nochem Wichesky has passed away. Also, the Jewish Program no longer has a Yiddish block.
  Just seven years ago, Mr. Wilchesky sent the following note to Mendele, advising of the 40th anniversary of his radio show, "Di Yiddishe Sho":

  Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:55:19 -0500 (EST) 
  From: "Nachum Wilchesky"  
  Subject: Di yiddishe sho
  
  And so it goes. Yet another milestone. 40 years ago, rather
  accidentally , and somewhat unsure of myself, onSunday, December 23rd
  1962 at 12 noon I sat in a radio studio and in a most mellifluous voice
  proclaimed "Di yiddishe shoh, Hashaah hayehudit, the Jewish hour", a
  one hour Radio Program on CFMB 1410AM in Yiddish, Hebrew and English.
  
  Much has changed in 40 years. For one thing I very soon had to change
  the name from a "shoh" to a "program", in Yiddish, becaause people who
  wanted me to use pure Yiddish on my program when Yiddish was spoken
  objected to my calling it "di Yiddishe Show"! And forty years later the
  mellifluousness of the voice is also not what iy used to be.. Still on
  this Sunday, the 22nd of December we complete forty years of
  Broadcasting Jewish programming , and not only in Montreal , but
  everywhere where Jews are in the world, through the Internet on
  WWW.CFMB.CA.
  
  Regards,
  
  Nachum Wilchesky
  

  KOVED ZAYN ONDENK!
  
  
• Sunday Morning Klezmer & Other Jewish Music, an exploration of Jewish Music, Art & Culture is hosted by Jacob Freedman, and plays Israeli, Jewish, Klezmer and Yiddish Music, and includes interviews with various Jewish Performers and Public Figures. The show airs every Sunday, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on WBZC 88.9 FM Pemberton, NJ. And may be heard in parts of the following New Jersey Counties; Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Ocean, and Salem; as well as, some parts of Eastern Pennsylvania; including Philadelphia.
  
  
• Radio Moldova's Programul Unu has Yiddish/Hebrew broadcasting in Kishinev, Belz, and throughout Moldova, for 30 minutes, from 1830 to 1900 UTC, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays each month, according to this useful guide to FM Broadcasting in Moldavia
  
  
• Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive - includes the archive of Eddie Gilman (Boston's Di Yidishe Shtunde)
  
  
• See also the following Jewish radio guides:
  • Ari Davidow's List of Klezmer and Yiddish Radio Shows <http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezradio.html>
  • The Jewish Music Web Center's JMWC Radio Guide <http://www.jmwc.org/jmwc_radio.html>
  
  
  
• Calling All Yiddish Radio Shows! Send radio@yv.org your broadcast information. We'll post it here.

Special-Interest Yiddish Voice Sites

• Buy Yiddish items at The Yiddish Voice Store.
• Lekoved Pesyakh: Elements of the Yiddish Peysakh Hagode, including Di Fir Kashes (The Four Questions in Yiddish).
• In memory of Ben Gailing Z"L 1898 - 1999

Yiddish Links

• Steven Lasky's Museum of Family History (a virtual museum) is very extensive and has a Yiddish component. Notable subsites include Zylbercweig's 'Yiddish Radio Hour' Archive and Zylbercweig's 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre' English translation.
  
  
• Di Zeitung, Chareidi Yiddish newspaper based in Brooklyn. (Online PDF copies of the current issue are generally available for download from their home page.)
  
  
• Yiddish Paris
  
  
• Yiddish Dictionary/Yidish Verterbukh, home page of a Yiddish-English version of the Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais, published by the Bibliotheque Medem in Paris, widely regarded as the most complete Yiddish dictionary currently available. You can click here to pre-order the new Yiddish Dictionary via Amazon.com (who will pay a small fee will help support the Yiddish Voice -- thanks!).
  
  
• Batya Fonda's Jewish Folk Songs (jewishfolksongs.com), Jewish Songs of the Diaspora, with her lectures, in Hebrew and English, about folklsongs primarily in Yiddish and Ladino, supplemented with audio-video and reference material.
  
  
• Haynt - the historic Yiddish newspaper from prewar Warsaw, Poland - is now online!
  
  
• Der Yidisher Moment: Yidishe Internet-Tsaytung, an Internet-only Yiddish newspaper, which claims to be the only one of its kind in the world, with writers and editors located in various parts of the world, started in January 2011, and featuring news, opinion, and literary texts, as well as audio-video materials.
  
  
• A mysterious Swedish web site with a Yiddish Picture Dictionary (URL: http://lexin.nada.kth.se/lang/jiddisch) sure seems useful for learning Yiddish words, despite having some glaring mistakes (e.g., translating leg as "beyn"). -- there's no information in English or Yiddish about what this is or who did it or why it's "here" (apparently on a web site of a Swedish organization that builds lexicons).
  
  
• Johanna Kovitz's YiddishWit.com, a collection of Yiddish folk sayings, presented in Yiddish (Hebrew) letters, transliteration, and English translation, along with entertaining illustrations and additional helpful explanatory text in English.
  
  
• Yiddish Song of the Week, presented by the the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project, edited by Itzik Gottesman, featuring Yiddish songs, their translation into English, and commentary by an expert, and emphasizing field recordings of traditional Yiddish folk singers from around the world.
  
  
• Yiddish Poetry Website: yiddishpoetry.org



• Di Yidishe Velt - Khareydish-oriented Yiddish-language website with news, blogs, and forums.
  
  
• Yiddish Forum - Mailing List/Yahoo! Group
  
  
• Yiddish Lives - Life Story Videos in Yiddish - Biography and Language Preservation
  
  
• Yiddish Teachers - Mailing List/Yahoo! Group
  
  
• Archive of the Yiddish literary journal Kheshbn, which was published by the LA Yiddish Culture Club from 1946 to 2008.
  
  
• Recently defunct: Yiddish radio show on Polskie-Radio. Old Listing:

  Naye Khvalyes, archive of the Yiddish radio show on Polskie-Radio in Poland. Can be heard live on the Internet via live stream (Sundays, 1900-1930 GMT). See also: Yidish Lebt, an other "Naye Khvalyes" website, and the Naye Khvalyes on Facebook page. Naye Khvalyes Podcasts available, too!

  
  
  
• Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library - online with more than 10,000 titles from the digitized Yiddish book collection of the National Yiddish Book Center, through the Internet Archive (archive.org).
  
  
• Yiddishland - a Google Groups Yiddish-language discussion group, primarily comprising posts by and for typically young and hip Yiddish speakers in the New York City area. Leyzer Birko, evidently the moderator, seems to be keeping the discussion lively and relevant.
  
  
• Yidtzayt (Yidtsayt) - Yiddish Website of the Yiddish students of Mount Scopus Memorial College (Australia)
  
  
• Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presents a monthly lecture in Yiddish followed by an artistic program in Yiddish.
  
  
• Index to Yiddish Periodicals, by the Yiddish Department of the Hebrew Univerity of Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Jewish National and University Library, comprises approximately 170,000 bibliographic records about the Eastern European Yiddish Press from 1862 to 1948.
  
  
• Lebns Fragn, website of the publication of the Arbeter-Ring in Israel, with a Jewish Labor Bund perspective on politics, society, and culture.
  
  
• The Yiddish Wikipedia, YI.Wikipedia.Org, has thousands of articles in Yiddish!
  
  
• Yung Yidish, founded by Mendy Cahan, home page of Israel's young, energetic, and growing Yiddish cultural organization.
  
  
• Project EYDES, digitizing, archiving, and making available (esp. via the Internet) the more than 6,000 hours of recordings of Yiddish speakers collected through Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) project, starting in the 1950's, under the direction of the late eminent scholar and linguist Uriel Weinreich.
  
  
• Gerben Zaagsma's Yiddish Sources
  
  
• YIVO's EPYC: Educational Program on Yiddish Culture
  
  
• Haynt, a book in Yiddish by Chaim Finklestein (Khayim Finkelshteyn), the last editor of the prewar Warsaw Yiddish daily of the same name, is now presented online on a site produced by Bob Becker, who's seeking volunteers to translate the book into English.
  
  
• Beys Leyvik (Beit Leivik) - Home of the Association of Yiddish Writer in Israel
  
  
• Zukht Zhe! You can now do a Google search in Yiddish!
  
  
• 1995 Colloquy on Yiddish Culture, a Council of Europe document, captures a session by the Committee on Culture and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, seeking to comprehend and deal with Yiddish language and culture in Europe in the early and mid- 90's. This event took place 3-5 May 1995, Lithuanian Seimas, VILNIUS,
  
  
• Yiddish at Berkeley
  
  
• Tapuz Forum for Yiddish - from Israel, in Yiddish with some Hebrew, a Yiddish supersite, featuring numerous links, exhibits, and a lively bulletin board/forum. In Yiddish and Hebrew, with Hebrew letters, Windows Hebrew character set.
  
  
• Saving Jewish recordings:
  • Save The Music, an organization established to collect and preserve Jewish music recordings, digitize them, and make them available on the Internet.
  • The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries (JSA) is actively collecting Judaica phonograph recordings. Located in Boca Raton, its mission is to preserve and digitize Judaica music and voice recordings, especially from the 20th century, and to promote awareness and appreciation of this cultural legacy. Their collection includes many vintage 78-RPM recordings showcasing Yiddish culture, including Klezmer instrumentals, Yiddish music and comedy of various sorts, and Cantorial performances in Ashkenazic Nusach.
  
  
• Rafael Goldwaser's Lufteater ("Theater of the Air", "Le Theatre en L'Air") performs Yiddish theater works in Strasberg, France.
  
  
• Yiddishkayt LA is a cultural organization that promotes Yiddish language and culture in Southern California.
  
  
• The Jewish Language Research Website is devoted to academic research on the many Jewish Languages, past and present. Sarah Bunin Benor (Moderator) and Tsuguya Sasaki (Webmaster/Listmaster) run the site and the Jewish-Languages Mailing List, for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian (Italkian), Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese (Shuadit) / Judeo-Provencal, Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo / Ladino), and Yiddish.
  
  
• Some Yiddish Blogs:
  • Sholem Berger ("Loshn, Divurim, Reyd, un Ploperay")
  • Katle Kanye ("Klerenishn ... fun a ... khosid")
  • The Chocolate Lady ("In Moyl Arayn")
  • Dov Ber Kerler ("Boris Karloff")'s Blog: Elabrek ("Naye un Alte Lider") - note: this more a rich archive of Yiddish poetry than a blog
  
  
  
• YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, the world's first intensive summer program in Yiddish.
  
  
• Helen Winkler's Yiddish Dance Page has news, info, and links galore related to Eastern European/Ashkenazik dance.
  
  
• Sholem Berger's yiddishcat.com is the "land of the Yiddish Cat", featuring news, reviews, and previews of his publishing enterprise, Esrim ve Arba (Twenty-Fourth Street) Books, LLC, whose first work, Di Kats Der Payats, a translation of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat in Yiddish, has recently (summer, 2003) been released.
  
  
• The Rock Theater web site (mostly in German, some Yiddish) in Dresden, Germany, gives information about this theater collective's performances of Yiddish music and theater and about some Yiddish songbooks and CDs they've published.
  
  
• Thanks to David Starner, who scanned in Harkavy's Yiddish-English (6th edition), English-Yiddish (11th edition) Dictionary (1910), and to Raphael Finkel, who tweaked the images and put them online, you can now see images from this dictionary at: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html
  
  
• KlezCalifornia - "a celebration of klezmer music, dance, Yiddish, Jewish culture, and visual arts"
  
  
• Yiddish Weblog (is it the first?): Katle Kanye's a khosid with a weblog to share his "struggle, doubts, successes, and failures". With Hebrew letters, Windows Hebrew character set.
  
  
• Article about Yiddish in Czernovitz by JTA (Jan. 27, 2003):

  Boris Slobodyansky is among a group of pensioners that put out a Yiddish broadcast, Dos Yiddishe Wort, or the Yiddish Word, on the airwaves of a Ukrainian state company. ``We have the only Yiddish radio in the world," he says, unaware of several Yiddish radio shows in other countries.

  
  
  
• Yiddish Studies at Harvard
  
  
• Yiddish Music recordings have a home at The Yiddish Music Hall.
  
  
• Poland's Yiddish biweekly, bilingual (Yiddish/Polish) news paper Dos Yidishe Vort's web site has much information in Yiddish about the newspaper, past-issue cover page images, tables of contents, reprints of some articles. Extensive Polish pages are also available.
  
  
• The Fishstein Yiddish Poetry Catalogue at McGill University (browsable catalogue, accompanying essays, etc.)
  
  
• The Dr. Izraelis Lempertas and the Jewish Community of Lithuania present Vilnius - Jerusalem of Lithuania, about Vilna (now Vilnius), the pre-WWII center of Yiddish culture. (This is part of a larger Jews in Lithuania site, in English and Lithuanian.
  
  
• The main address for Yiddish in Boston is Boston's Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, and now they have a snazzy new web site: www.workmenscircleboston.org
  
  
• YIVO Institute's Interactive Alef-Beyz -- shows you, and can sound out, the Yiddish alphabet and the widely used YIVO transliteration system.
  
  
• Jewish-languages.org, a Jewish Language Research Website, has a Yiddish Language section giving info about the language and some of its scholars, with a scholarly bent.
  
  
• The California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture (CIYCLE) produces the annual Winter Yiddish Intensive Program at UCLA.
  
  
• The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre is the oldest and really the only standing professional Yiddish theatre in the United States. Their web site gives ticket and performance information as well as information about the artists, plays, and history that make up this important institution.
  
  
• The German-language site Virtual Klezmer features information about Klezmer/Yiddish music all over, but especially the German scene, providing news, links, downloads, discussion groups, etc.
  
  
• Di Yunge Gvardie (The Young Guard) is a new online journal, in Yiddish, produced by students from the King David School in Victoria, Australia. With Hebrew letters, Windows Hebrew character set.
  
  
• Yiddishpiel, the Yiddish Theater of Israel.
  
  
• Interested in learning Yiddish in Vilna? Check out the Vilnius Program in Yiddish this summer!
  
  
• The European Union and Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language and Culture (Duesseldorf) present a Yiddish Language Course featuring authentic Yiddish dialect recordings from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazik Jewry. The highly interactive multimedia site features instructional materials in German, Yiddish text in Alef-Beyz (Hebrew script), and vistors are encouraged to ask questions in English, Yiddish, or German. Site created by Dr. Ulrike Kiefer and Robert Neumann.
  
  
• The Tamiment Library at New York University has a Guide to Yiddish-Speaking Labor and Radical Movements.
  
  
• International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam has a Guide to the Yiddish Collection of the Institute, including a searchable Catalog of the Jewish Labor Bund Archives.
  
  
• The Friends of the Secular Yiddish Schools in America Collection (FSYSA) supports oral history and artifact collection and preservation. The collection was established at Stanford University (California) in 1994 by Gella Schweid Fishman. The Friends <FriendsofSYSA@aol.com> publish a newsletter, organize volunteers, and raise funds to support the collection.
  
  
• The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture presents Yiddishculture.org, with great Yiddish cultural content, notably information about center's publishing and related activities, and its namesake, the late Yiddish poet Dora Teitelboim.
  
  
• Australia's Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library Kadimah, the major Yiddishist organization in Australia.
  
  
• Leonard Prager's The World of Yiddish, which is the home of
  • Khulyot, A Journal of Yiddish Research, edited by Prager, and other excellent Yiddish literary content and reference material; and
  • New! (Oct. '05) The Yehoyesh Project: Tanakh - The Bible in Yiddish - has been completed!
  • ... and much more!
  
  
  
• Steven Weiss's Necrology of European Yiddish Theatre Actors who were victims of the Holocaust, translated/adapted/edited from by Zalmen Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishen Teater: Kedoshim Band (Volume 5) -- UPDATE: Related: Steven Lasky's Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre, his nearly complete, and steadily growing, collection of translations of the biographies in aforementioned Leksikon.
  
  
• R. A. Friedman's Yiddish American Digital Archive, featuring streaming realaudio clips of Yiddish recordings from various sources, including an exclusive special collection of his grandfather Henry Berman's radio airchecks restored from "acetate, glass, and shellac disks".
  
  
• YIVO Institute, the great scholarly institute which specializes in the study of Eastern European Jewry and carries out much of its publishing in the Yiddish language.
  
  
• US Census 2000 Language Assistance Guides for Yiddish and other languages are available. Here you'll find the Yiddish Short Form and the Yiddish Long Form. All of these files are in the Portable Document Format (PDF). In order to view these files, you will need the Adobe. Acrobat. Reader which is available for free from the Adobe web site.
  
  
• Steven Weiss of Chicago has curated a web site to display his grandfather's extraordinary collection of antique Yiddish postcards.
  
  
• On this web page, and in most modern publications specializing in Yiddish, we use the YIVO system of transliterating Yiddish. (Here's a Guide to Yiddish Transliteration from Shtetl.)
  
  
• S. L. Shneiderman and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books, a web site/exhibition showcasing the lives and work of the late great writer and journalist S. L. Shneiderman and his wife Eileen, and the writer's book collection that is now part of the University of Maryland Library.
  
  
• MSN's Encarta Encyclopedia has entries for Yiddish Language and for Yiddish Literature
  
  
• Visit Kol Avrohom's site to hear Daf HaYomi in Yiddish by HaRav Avrohom Karp zts"l, featuring Real Audio of daf-yomi in Yiddish.
  
  
• Visit The Daily Sicho (http://www.sichos.com/), featuring Real Audio of the daily Yiddish sichos of the Lubavitscher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson zts"l.
  
  
• The huge HaGalil Online web site (mostly in German) has a JIDDISCH - YIDDISH - JIDISH - YIDISH page with lots of resources, information, and links.
  
  
• Late-bloomer artist and ardent Yiddishist Nachman Libeskind's 90th Birthday Exhibition, an online exhibition of his paintings.
  
  
• Bob Becker's Home Page is dedicated to his grandmother Rose Leis (1887 - 1980) and her Life Story, in the form of scanned pages of the Yiddish text of her unpublished autobiography.
  
  
• Shura Vaisman and others have created a website in honor of the 90th anniversary of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference on the Yiddish Language, with many interesting articles about the conference, documents from the conference, and many images of historical persons, places, and things.
  
  
• Ariga's Glossary of Yiddish Expressions.
  
  
• Travlang.com has the beginnings of what could be a useful Yiddish Far Rayznde (Yiddish for travellers) multimedia dictionary.
  
  
• Not quite a Yiddish dictionary, but Michael D. Fein's got a pretty good glossary, or what he calls a List of Yiddish Words and Expressions.
  
  
• Aviva's Starkman's Aviva's Yiddish Page
  
  
• Der Forverts (in Yiddish) iz afn Internet! (The Yiddish Forward is on the Internet!)
  Note: you can also now subscribe to the Forverts online directly through The Yiddish Voice Store.
  
  
• From France, it's www.YiddishWeb.com.... cliquez pour continuer! (Note: seems to overlap with the Medem Library homepage cited below.)
  
  
• Living Traditions, sponsors of the annual KlezKamp Yiddish Folk Arts Festival, and co-producers of the Yiddish Radio Project.
  
  
• From the UK, it's Klezmer On-Line.
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania's Yiddish at PENN web site!
  
  
• Visit an online exhibit about the Yiddish Theater in London, presented by the Jewish Museum of London. This exhibit is based on the exhibit "The Yiddish Theatre in London", which the museum originally presented 25 June - 10 November 1996. The tag line invites visitors to "rediscover one of London's most remarkable and least known theatrical traditions from 1880 until recent times!"
  
  
• The Dallas Virtual Jewish Community presents Years Have Sped By: My Life Story, memoirs and poetry by the late Yiddish poet, and Dallas resident, Chaya Rochel Klejman Andres. Presented in the Yiddish original, and with an English translation by Yudel Cohen.
  
  
• All kinds of facts about Yiddish in Film are at your fingertips, thanks to The Internet Movie Database Ltd's Yiddish Film Database (where you can find, for example, a list of the 113 films with Yiddish dialog
  
  
• Yiddish Links by Frank H. Unlandherm, Jewish Studies Librarian, Columbia University
  
  
• Yiddish at Bialik, by Anna Gonshor, who is the Coordinator of Yiddish Studies at Montreal's famed Bialik School, presents information on the Bialik School's approach to Yiddish, samples of the students' Yiddish endeavors, information about Yiddish, and useful Yiddish links
  
  
• Radio- and print-journalist Jon Kalish wrote about the Yiddish Voice in Cyberspace for Jewish Family and Life in November, 1997, and put it on his web site, Kalish on the Web
  
  
• Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky's Yiddishnet mailing list archive and subscription form
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Jewish-Music mailing list archive and subscription form
  
  
• Joel Rubin/Rita Ottens Jewish Cultural Programming and Research web site, displaying an impressive list of Yiddish/Klezmer concert, CD, and radio productions
  
  
• Detlav Mueller's German Klezmer Page, initiated by the Klezmer Gesellschaft e.V. (in German and English)
  
  
• The National Yiddish Book Center, founded by MacArthur Fellow Aaron Lansky and headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts, has collected over 1.4 million Yiddish books. Publisher of Der Pakntreger (The Book Peddler), a fine magazine about Yiddish language, culture, and literature.
  
  
• "The family of SHOLOM ALEICHEM, in conjunction with The Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation, has created a web site dedicated to his life and work", said the e-mail announcement we received today (March 11, 1998) from Robert V. Waife <robert@sholom-aleichem.org>.
  
  
• Jack (Yankl) Halpern's Yiddish Page web site features the home pages of the Japan Yiddish Club.
  
  
• Tsuguya Sasaki's World of Hebrew and Jewish Languages contains both interesting and scholarly content, from a surprising source, about Jewish languages, including Yiddish.
  
  
• There's a Yiddish web site in Holland run by the "Singing Group Striid" (also available in Dutch).
  
  
• The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal, Canada, has a web site, with some history, photographs, and information, including information about upcoming performances.
  
  
• The private collection of Bob Freedman and his wife Molly has become the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish Music at the University of Pennsylvania Library, with a Yiddish Song Database search interface.
  
  
• Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, dedicated to Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice.
  
  
• Sholem Berger's Internet Yiddish Literary Journal Der Bavebter Yid
  
  
• Film Producer David Notowitz's film Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years, narrated by Leonard Nemoy, directed by Yale Strom, lets Zev Godinger tell his story in Yiddish (with English subtitles).
  
  
• Raphael Finkel's Yidishe Shraybmashinke (Yiddish Typewriter) lets you compose a page of Yiddish text from your web browser. Also converts between a growing list of Yiddish computer file formats. ... And now (2008) there's also the Yidishe Shrayberke, a web-based Yiddish input method editor (IME).
  
  
• Yiddish Text on computers, and even on the Web: The UYIP Home Page has information about, and resources to facilitate, Understanding Yiddish Information Processing (UYIP), an Internet mailing list.
  
  
• France's Medem Bibliotek Homepage "La plus grande bibliotheque yiddish d'Europe" (Europe's Greatest Yiddish Library)
  
  
• League for Yiddish - YIDISH-LIGE - founded by Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z"l) in 1979 to support the modernization, standardization, and use of Yiddish. Publisher of Afn Shvel
  
  
• Home page for Yugntruf, a worldwide organization of Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-learning young adults.
  
  
• Paris's Online Yiddish Newspaper for Yiddish learners Der Yidisher Tamtam has been published since 1995, and has been online (downloadable) since 1997 -- the World's first online Yiddish newspaper.
  
  
• Noyekh Miller's Mendele: Yiddish Language and Literature (Info about the Mailing List)
  
  
• Iosif Vaisman's Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture Home Page
  
  
• Refoyl Finkel's Yiddish Poetry in Hebrew Letters (GIF Images)
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Klezmer Shack, with reviews, news, a much more, all about the world of Klezmer music.
  
  
• Ari Davidow's Virtual Ashkenaz, a discussion forum about new Yiddish culture.
  
  
• Marc Zissman's Wolf Lewkowicz Collection (Extraordinary Yiddish Letters, and More)
  
  
• The National Yiddish Book Center and KCRW 89.9FM/Santa Monica, CA present Jewish Short Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond (get the whole scoop, including Real Audio feeds of some of the stories, and ordering information for the entire set of tapes).

• Algemeiner Journal, Inc., 508 Montgomery Street, Brookline, NY 11225 USA; Tel. (718) 771-0400; Associated website: www.algemeiner.com; Publisher of Algemeiner Journal (Der Algemeyner Zhurnal)
  
  
• CYCO Publishing House and Book Distribution Agency, 25 East 21st Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010 USA; Tel. (212) 505-8305. CYCO is a bookstore devoted exclusively to the Yiddish word and publishes belles-lettres in Yiddish. It is united with the Congress for Jewish Culture (see below). (Note: name is pronounced "TSI-ko".)
  
  
• Congress for Jewish Culture, 25 East 21st Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10010 USA; Tel (212) 505-8040; Publisher of The Future (Di Tsukunft) and Yiddish reference and history books, conducts a full year of programming in Yiddish.
  
  
• Leyvik House, 30 Dov Hoz St., Tel-Aviv 63416 Israel, Tel. +972-03-523-1830 Fax +972-03-523-7177; Email: info@leyvik.org.il; Home of the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel (other spellings/pronunciations: Leyvik Hoyz, Beit Leivik, Beys Leyvik)
  
  
• Der Bay, 1128 Tanglewood Way, San Mateo, CA 94403; Publisher of Der Bey (pronounced both as "derbay" and "der bey"), whose tag line is "The Golden Gate to the World-Wide Yiddish Community"; E-mail to the editor, Philip "Fishl" Kutner <fishl@derbay.org>; Tel. (650) 349-6946
  
  
• The Forward Association, 45 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel. (212) 889-8200; Publisher of the Yiddish, Russian, and English Forward (Yiddish: Forverts)
  
  
• Yidish-Lige (League for Yiddish, Inc.), 64 Fulton St. Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038 USA; Tel. 212-889-0380; Email: info@leagueforyiddish.org; Publisher of Afn Shvel; (note: new street address as of Spring 2008)
  
  
• Labor Zionist Letters, 275 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10001-6708 USA; Tel. (212) 675-7807; Publisher of Yidisher Kemfer
  
  
• Lebns Fragn, 48 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv, Israel 65165; Tel. 03-5176764; Socialist Monthly / "sotsialistishe khoydesh-shrift far politik, virtshaft, un kultur"
  
  
• Living Traditions, Inc., 45 East 33rd Street, Suite B-2A, New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel. (212) 532-8202; Fax (212) 532-8238; Email: info@livingtraditions.org; the organization that brings you KlezKamp, the Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, the Yiddish Radio Project, and more
  
  
• National Yiddish Book Center, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, 1021 West St., Amherst, MA 01002-3375 USA; Tel. (toll-free book orders) (888) 4-BIKHER; Tel. (general) (800) 535-3595; Fax (413) 256-4700; Book orders and inquiries by email: bikher@bikher.org; Publisher of The Pakntreger (email: pt@bikher.org)
  
  
• Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Universiteto str. 7, LT-2734 Vilnius, Lithuania; Phone: +370 2 687 187; Fax: +370 2 687 186; Email: institute@judaicvilnius.com; sponsors research and education in Yiddish language and culture, including an intensive summer program
  
  
• Workmen's Circle, 45 E. 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel: 212-889-6800; Outside Metro NYC: 800-922-2558; E-mail: wcfriends@aol.com
  
  
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 USA; Tel. (212) 246-6080; Fax (212) 292-1892; E-mail: yivomail@yivo.cjh.org; Publisher of YIVO-bleter
  
  
• Yugntruf (note: new address as of 2008:) (Youth for Yiddish), 419 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10003 USA; Tel. 212-889-0381; Email: yugntruf@gmail.com; Publisher of Yugntruf Journal; (note: new street address and email address as of Spring 2008)
  

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