Pesach with Rav Izchak Kin, Gitu Cycowicz, et al

Happy Passover! ‫אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח!‬

Happy Passover and thanks to friends, participants, and
sponsors of this show:


Israel Book Shop (Eli Dovek
ז״ל recorded Mar 28 2007)


American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
of Greater Boston (member and Holocaust survivor
Mary Erlich), co-sponsor of Boston's 2023
In-Person and Virtual Community Holocaust Commemoration of
Yom HaShoah, Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 2:00PM Eastern.
Info and registration here:
https://www.jcrcboston.org/event/annual-yom-hashoah-commemoration/


League for Yiddish, New York, NY,
(Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Chair of the
Board)


Leah Shporer-Leavitt, Newton, MA, co-host
of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול


Sholem Beinfeld, Cambridge, MA, co-host of
The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול


Dovid Braun, Leonia, NJ, co-host of The
Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קול


Yankele Bodo, Tel Aviv, Israel, actor and
singer (from 2016)


Leser Maimon, Brooklyn, NY, Holocaust
survivor and leader of Young Israel of Mill Basin


Eli Grodko, New Millford, NJ, friend of
the show


Boston Workers Circle, Brookline, MA
(Yiddish committee member Linda (Libe-Reyzl)
Gritz)





Featured speakers:


Rabbi Izchak Kin, Los Angeles, CA: a
Modzitzer chossid, born in Jerusalem, he taught Torah and Talmud
in Yiddish in Los Angeles for more than 40 years


Gitu Cycowicz, Jerusalem: Gitu -- a/k/a
Giselle (Gita) Cycowicz (née Friedman) -- who was born in 1927
in the town of Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, then part of
Czechoslovakia, now in Ukraine, survived Auschwitz and other
camps, later starting a new life in the USA, and eventually
getting her PhD in psychology. In her later years, she moved to
Israel and then worked for decades for AMCHA
(https://amcha.org), helping with the psychological needs of
her fellow survivors.



Music:


Moishe Oysher: Got Iz Eyner (Mu Asapru)

Lori Cahan-Simon and Meyshke Alpert: Zog Maran

Sidor Belarsky: Shvimt dos Kestl Afn Nil

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



Podcast release dates: April 3 and 4, 2023


Air Date: April 5, 2023