Sarah Moskovitz: The Song Remains

This week, Yiddish poetry lovers are in for a treat: an interview
with Sarah Traister Moskowitz with her reading
of poems in the collection „דאָס ליד איז געבליבן“ ("The Song
Remains") along with her English translations. Sarah is the
translator of the collection of poems Dos Lid is Geblibn, or The
Song Remains, on the new website thesongremains.org, an anthology
of Yiddish poems with English translations from the Nazi German
occupation of Poland. The collection is taken from the book of
the same name in Yiddish, edited by Binem Heller and originally
published in Poland in 1951. In the interview Sarah talks about
her life and her connections to Yiddish, the Holocaust, and this
collection of poetry. She also reads three of the poems from the
collection in Yiddish along with her English translation:


Kapital (Das Kapital) -Sh. Zhirman

Aktualie (Actually) -Misha Troyanov

Lodzh (Łódź) -M. Goldshteyn



Sarah worked for years with child-Holocaust-survivors in Los
Angeles and helped produce the book How We Survived: 52 Personal
Stories by Child Survivors of the Holocaust, including writing
its forward, which she reads from in the Interview. Read more
about Sarah Moskovitz at the new website:
https://thesongremains.org/translator-sarah-traister-moskovitz/


Also on this week's show: Miriam Libenson ז״ל's
presentation for Lag B'Oymer from our archive (originally
recorded and aired in the 1990's). Miriam was a poet in her own
right, whose poetry often graced our airwaves, as well as such
publications as דער טאָג-מאָרגן-דשורנאָל and פּיאָנערן פֿרויען
(Der Tog-Morgn-Dzhurnal and Pionern-Froyen).


Music/recordings:


Sarah Gorby: Zog Nit Keynmol

Raasche: Arum Dem Fayer

Tova Ben-Zvi: Lag-B'Oimer

Wolf Krakowski: Yeder Ruft Mikh Ziamele

Wolf Krakowski: Varshe

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



Air date: May 22, 2024