Beinfeld, Glasser, Turner: The Jewish-Communist Milieu in Post-war Poland; Tara Neuwirth: Yivo's 2024 Zumer-program

Highlights:




A report from the Yivo-Bard Yiddish Summer Program by student
Tara Neuwirth, who has attended several
times beginning in 1983. This year's Zumer-program kicked off
last week and seems off to a good start. We spoke to Tara by
phone on July 10, 2024. We hope to hear more from other
students and teachers from this and other Yiddish summer
courses around the world. Info on the Yivo-Bard Yiddish
Summer program here: https://summerprogram.yivo.org




Prof. Sholem Beinfeld, professor emeritus of
history at Washington University, St. Louis, gives a brief
lecture on Dovid Sfard, Hersh Smolar, and the
Yiddish-Communist Milieu in Poland after WWII, and then
discusses the topic with Hershl Glasser and
Reyze Turner, who translated the book A
citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist
Milieu in Poland (Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna; Peter Lang
International Academic Publishers, Bern, 2020) into English.
Book info: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114288 We
recorded the lecture and discussion via Zoom on June 17,
2024. A book by Hersh Smolar, originally in Yiddish, is about
to come out this August 2024, translated into Yiddish by Ruth
Murphy. Info here:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/jews-without-yellow-stars/




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




Air Date: July 10, 2024