The Yiddish Voice / DOS YIDISHE KOL / דאָס ייִדישע קול On WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, Massachusetts USA Listen LIVE Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 p.m. (Note: that's 7:30 p.m. Boston Time) A Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston's Yiddish-speaking community. A Yiddish Internet resource serving the world. E-Mail: radio@yv.org Web: http://www.yiddishvoice.com Station Mailing Address: Yiddish Voice, c/o WUNR, 60 Temple Pl Boston, MA 02111 Phone: (617) 730-8484 * Fax: (617) 249-0141 * Request Line: (617) 350-9931 (only call during the show)

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Announcements

• Sunday, May 18th 2008, 2:00-4:00 PM
  Rabbi Moshe Lieberman, Director of the
  Newton Center Chabad
  
  Will talk "oyf Yiddish" with the Workmen's Circle community about:
  
  "Yiddish In the Khasidic World Today"
  
  Come hear who is learning, speaking, reading, and publishing
  "Mameloshn" in various corners around the world.
  
  Please join us for an informative and inspiring talk.
  
  Location: Workmen's Circle, 1672 Beacon Street, Brookline 02246
  Admission free and open to the public
  Refreshments will be served.
  
  Brought to you by the Workmen's Circle Yiddish
  Programming Committee

  
  
  
• We are sad to report the passing of Abraham Brumberg, whose interview with The Yiddish Voice we had the pleasure of broadcasting on August 8, 2001.
  
  
• Highlights of Upcoming Boston Workmen's Circle Events:
  
  
  
  
  • See the Workmen's Circle of Boston's Yiddish Community for many Yiddish-related lectures, sings, classes, and other events in Boston (lectures, sings, classes, klezmer jams, etc.)
  
  
• 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).
  
• The NCJF (National Center for Jewish Film) keeps track of worldwide Screenings of Yiddish Films (or at least, most 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 Audio Sites

• The National Yiddish Book Center Audio Library has recordings of book center programs as well as Yiddish and English readings from Yiddish/Jewish literature.
• Jewish Tapes Online (jewishtapesonline.com) is "dedicated to teaching torah in Yiddish". Offering an amazing collection of audio cassette tapes by talmidey khakhomim, in Yiddish!
  
  
• The Breslov.com site features Breslover Shiurim in Yiddish.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• There is a nice set of links at http://www.613.org/net.html, which is maintained by the Jewish Torah Audio service or 613.Org, also worthy of a visit.
  
  
• 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.

About Yiddish Audio on the Internet and at our web site: The Yiddish Voice was the first Internet web site to make Yiddish audio available at the click of a button. We first introduced Yiddish audio to the Internet in May, 1996, by putting a rare recording of Sholom Aleichem on our web site. We subsequently improved on the delivery process by obtaining a realaudio server, which let us "stream out" audio in real time, letting you can begin hearing the sounds seconds after you click, no matter how long the piece you're hearing.

• In order to listen, you need the free Real Audio Player from Real Networks. Download Real Player free.
  
  
• The material we present at this site will change from time to time, so stay tuned. We have been receiving many requests to expand our radio service in the direction of the net. We'd welcome your comments about this service, as well as reports of any problems or inconveniences you encounter, via email: radio@yv.org



• Our audio of Sholom Aleichem reading from his own work appears below on this page, with a brand new introduction by Henry Sapoznik.



• Several of the brief rundowns below are audio enhanced, and you can hear for yourself some important elements of our broadcast -- look for the Real Audio logo and these words: Audio Available!



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Recent Programs

• 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). To download, click here.
  
  
  
• 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). To download, click here.
  
  
  
• 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). To download, click here.
  
  
  
• 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). To download, click here.

    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). To download, click here.

  • 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, 419 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.

Further info at The Yiddish Voice Gopher (However, this information service has been suspended for a few years. There's not much there.)

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

• 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 is in Yiddish.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The Jewish Hour, out of Yale University, New Haven, CT, is hosted by Rabbi Yossi Hodakov, and features Yiddish music, along Jewish music in Hebrew and English, as well as news, commentary, and a review of the weekly Torah portion. Broadcast Sunday mornings, 10-11 AM, on WYBC 1340 AM/New Haven, and live on the Internet via www.TheJewishHour.com.
  
  
• 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 Friday, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. on WNWR 1540 AM. For program information and archived programs: http://www.wnwr.com/jewishindex.html.
  
  
• 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

• The Forward Hour (Forverts Sho) - in New York City - WMCA AM 570, Saturdays, 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., under the direction of the editor of the Forverts, Boris Sandler.
  
  
• Simkhe Drayer (Dr. Saul Drajer), has written this exciting news about Argentina's Naye Yidishe Sho (8/3/98):

  Every Sunday, from 9 to 10 pm at JAI (read khay), an FM station located at 96.3 mHz in Buenos Aires, and 103.6 mHz in Rosario (the third largest city of Argentina); you can listen to the "NAYE YIDDISHE SHO", a radio program from the Argentine IWO (YIVO). Music, news, comments from the "yiddish veltele" and interviews are always on schedule. This is the sixth year since our radio program is on the air and we have a growing audience. Conductors of the program are Abraham Lichtenbaum, Saul Drajer, Jaime Mandelman and Felipe Obschatko.

• 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.intkolisrael.com

  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 at these times:

     Wednesday  15:00: Sydney 1107AM, Melbourne 1224AM
     Sunday     12:00: Sydney 1107AM, Melbourne 1224AM, SBS National AM in each city
  

  And you can also hear them online. Go to http://www.radio.sbs.com.au/language.php?language=Yiddish, and click on either of the links labelled LISTEN TO THE LATEST BROADCAST or AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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 article: Jewish sound archive to go online
  
  
• 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

• 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.
  
  
• Philadelphia's Youngish and Yiddish
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Horav Mordkhe Teitz's Daf Hashovua in Yiddish, presented by the family of the late great HaRav Pinchas Mordechai Teitz, of Elizabeth, NJ. -- the "Daf Hashovua" was broadcast on WEVD "shpeysesnakhts" (Saturday nights) beginning January 17, 1953, until the late 1980's, with tapes sent literally around the world, notably to "behind the Iron Curtain" (Russia).
  
  
• 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 in Historical Research
  
  
• YIVO's EPYC: Educational Program on Yiddish Culture
  
  
• Saving Yiddish Literature: Aaron Lansky's Oct. 18, 2004, appearance on WBUR Radio's The Connection. In English.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Summary of Yiddish Blogs:
  • Sholem Berger ("Loshn, Divurim, Reyd, un Ploperay")
  • Katle Kanye ("Klerenishn ... fun a ... khosid")
  • The Chocolate Lady ("In Moyl Arayn")
  • Noam Starik ("Alef-Beys: A Literarish Bletl")
  • Elabrek ("Naye un Alte Lider")
  • Bar Pakhti ("Biklal nisht keyn Kotle Kanye ...")
  
  
  
• 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 the world's first Online Yiddish Course, as well as information about center's publishing and related activities, and its namesake, the late Yiddish poet Dora Teitelboim. Dora Teitelboim Center also now has a newsletter, The New Yiddish Times.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Inna Barmash's Zemerl aspires to be "the comprehensive, interactive Yiddish song database". The site includes song lyrics, links to online clips, as well as forms to add new lyrics, search, etc.
  Some more Yiddish songs may be found at Moyshe's Yiddish-Lyrics Page
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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; Publisher of The Future (Der Tsukunft) (note: name is pronounced "TSI-ko")
  
  
• 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.), 45 E. 33rd St. Rm. 203, New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel. 212-889-0380; Email: info@leagueforyiddish.org; Publisher of Afn Shvel; (note: new address/phone as of July 28, 2005)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Yiddishe Kultur Literary Journal, 1133 Broadway, room 820, New York, NY 10010 USA; Tel. (212) 243-1304; E-mail: mahosu@aol.com
  
  
• Yugntruf (Youth for Yiddish), 45 E. 33rd St. Rm. 203, New York, NY 10016 USA; Tel. 212-889-0381; Email: yugntruf@yugntruf.org; Publisher of Yugntruf Journal; (note: new address/phone as of July 28, 2005)
  

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