Erev Rosh Hashona with Sutzkever Poetry Translated and Read by Richard Fein and Sholem Beinfeld

This week, greetings for Rosh Hashona from friends, participants,
and sponsors of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול, combined
with a poetry reading by Richard Fein and
Sholem Beinfeld.


אַ גוט, געבענטשט יאָר אַלע אונדזערע צוהערער - לשנה טובֿה


Highlights:


Author and translator Richard J. Fein
(Yiddish name: Ruvn-Yankev), along with his friend, collaborator,
and regular Yiddish Voice cohost Sholem
Beinfeld, read from Fein's book The Full Pomegranate:
Poems of Avrom Sutzkever (SUNY Press, 2019), which features
Sutzkever's poems in their original Yiddish along with Fein's
English translations. Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) is widely
regarded as one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the 20th
century. Richard J. Fein is Professor Emeritus of English at the
State University of New York at New Paltz and the author, editor,
and translator of many books, including With Everything We’ve
Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry. Sholem Beinfeld is
Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St.
Louis, and is perhaps best known as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the
Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary (Arumnemik
Yidish-English Verterbukh), as well as a translator of Yiddish
texts and creator of new subtitles for classic Yiddish movies.
For further information on Fein's book The Full Pomegranate, see
the publisher's web site:
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6690-the-full-pomegranate.aspx We
recorded this at Fein's home in Cambridge, MA, on Sept. 20, 2024.

Greetings on behalf of the American Association of
Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater
Boston, featuring members Tania Lefman
(Treasurer), Mary Ehrlich, Rosalie
Reszelbach and Miriam Modricamin.

Greetings from Eli Dovek ז״ל, late
proprietor of our sponsor Israel Bookshop,
Brookline, MA.

Greeting from Sholem Beinfeld, co-host.
Recorded Sept. 18, 2024, by phone.

Greeting from Lillian (Leye) Leavitt,
co-host. Recorded Sept. 25, 2024, by phone.

Greetings on behalf of the League for
Yiddish / די ייִדיש-ליגע by
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Board Chair. Recorded
Sept. 18, 2024.

Greetings on behalf of the Hebrew Actors
Foundation and CYCO Yiddish Book Center
by Hy Wolfe. Recorded via Zoom Sept. 18, 2024.



Music:


Cantor Joseph Shapiro: B'Rosh Hashona

Malavsky Family: Kevah Kures

Sholom Katz: Zochreinu L'Chayim

Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental
track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz



Air date: September 25, 2024