The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul (Hershl) Glasser, the editors of the just-published Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. Airing part 1 tonight (7/13/16) and part 2 next week (7/20/16). Interviewers: Iosif Lakhman and Dovid Braun. Check out dictionary web page at League for Yiddish: http://store.leagueforyiddish.org/verterbukh.html

Interview with Rukhl Schaechter, by Yosef Lakhman and Meyer Dovid, on Rukhl's becoming the new Editor of the Forverts (Yiddish Forward), not only its first female editor but also its first American-born. Air date: May 18, 2016

Zackary Sholem Berger discusses his new book of poetry One Nation Taken Out of Another. Poetry Reading with Sholem Berger Monday, Dec 14, 2015 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Workmen's Circle Building, 1762 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02445 Zackary Sholem Berger (@ZackBergerMDPhD) will read from his newest book of poetry in English and Yiddish, _One Nation Taken Out of Another_ (Apprentice House, 2014) - a joyride on a bassackward hybrid with an American brain, Yiddish heart, and all sorts of wandering limbs grafted onto the whole. It's midrash, whimsy, and polyglot extravagance. The evening will be in Yiddish and a smattering of English. Books will be for sale. Info: circleboston.org, +1 (617) 566-6281 Amram Deutsch interview continues (part 2). Myer Loketch discusses Hanukkah (replay from 2006).

Sam Norich, publisher of the Yiddish Forverts newspaper, gives an update on recent, current, and upcoming features of the Forverts, its web site (yiddish.forward.com), social media (e.g., @Forverts on Twitter). Avi Hoffman talks about his role as Willie Loman in the Yiddish translation of the late Jewish playwright Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". (Replay)