Perla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles

This week's featured interview is with Perla Karney, discussing her journey from childhood in the Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA and had a career as a theater producer before taking on her current role as artistic director of the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Karney recently produced and co-starred in a video on the Yiddish Forward (Forverts)'s YouTube channel. Starring the famed Yiddish actor Mike Burstyn, it's titled "A Jewish deli experience with actor Mike Burstyn – in Yiddish!", and features unscripted Yiddish-language dialog as the two enjoy and discuss Jewish dishes together at Factor's Deli in Los Angeles. To find out more about Perla Karney, see her bio at UCLA Hillel: https://www.uclahillel.org/perla_karney_bio For Pesach: exclusively from The Yiddish Voice archive: Hasia Segal z"l: sings several Yiddish Pesach songs Myer Loketch z"l: radio talk on Pesach from 2008 Music: Sidor Belarsky: several songs from the album Seder Nights with Sidor Belarsky Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: March 15, 2023