# Chava Alberstein
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chava alberstein (Hebrew: חוה אלברשטיין, born December 8, 1946 in Poland) is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.
== Biography ==
Born Ewa Alberstein in Szczecin, Poland, her name was Hebraized to Chava when she moved to Israel with her family in 1950. She grew up in Kiryat Haim.
Leybl Botwinik, Yetta Kane (Pt. 2)
Leybl Botwinik is a writer of science fiction, poetry and songs (in both Yiddish and English) who grew up in Montreal’s vibrant Yiddish cultural scene. He is the son of the late Dovid Botwinik, a composer of Yiddish songs, music educator, and Yiddish activist, and the brother of Sender Botwinik…
Moyshe Hoffman: Hoffy's Restaurant
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Moyshe Hoffman, proprietor of Hoffy’s Kosher Restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium, where you can “enjoy Yiddish traditional cuisine”. He talks about his restaurant, some personal and family history, and a bit about Yiddish life in Antwerp. We interviewed Moyshe Hoffman at Hoffy’s on Nov. 1…
Elena Luchina, U. Mich. Yiddish Teacher (new); Miriam Libenson Z'L on Shvues (archive)
Interview with Elena Luchina (עלענאַ לוטשינאַ), who is the Yiddish instructor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, discussing her interesting background and current career at one of the leading Yiddish-language and Jewish-studies programs in the United States. Originally from Moscow,…
Ben Lesser, Holocaust Survivor and Educator, for Yom HaShoah
Ben Lesser, a Holocaust survivor born in Cracow in 1928, describes his many ordeals and nearly miraculous survival of the Holocaust as a boy, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to liberation in 1945. Ben founded and runs, with his family, the The ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, dedica…
Pinchas Gutter Interview (Part 2), Yom Hashoah
In this show we observe Yom HaShoah with part 2 of a fantastic new interview with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, discussing his experiences as a boy growing up in Lodz, Poland, later relocating to Warsaw, surviving the Warsaw Ghetto as well as deportation to the Majdanek death camp. This week’s…
Rukhl Schaechter on 'Women in the Shtetl'
A discussion between Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter and historian Prof. Sholem Beinfeld on the topic of the powerful role of the woman in the Eastern European shtetl.
Schaechter argues women in Jewish traditional life are often stereotyped as passive and invisible particularly in the public sp…
Benny Mer, Kolya Borodulin
Today’s guests:
Benny Mer, author of recent book, written in Hebrew, Smocza: A
Biography of a Jewish Street in Warsaw (סמוצ׳ה: ביאגרפיה של רחוב
יהודי בוורשה, בני מר
https://www.magnespress.co.il/en/book/Smocza-4170)
Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming at Workers
Circle (https://cir…
Kolya Borodulin, Dovid Braun, Valentine's Day
Interview with Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming
at Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring). Check out all their Yiddish
programming here:
https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/
Interview with Dovid Braun, Academic Director of the 2019
YIVO-Bard Summer Program, also known as the …
Amram Deutsch & Esti (Jahr) Shnek (repeats) for International Holocaust Day
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Soviet Army. This Jan 27, 2018, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. We are observing the day by re-airing portions of interviews with two survivors of the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Amram De…
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