Perla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles

This week's featured interview is with Perla
Karney, discussing her journey from childhood in the
Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to
finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she
studied at UCLA and had a career as a theater producer before
taking on her current role as artistic director of the Dortort
Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. A fluent
Yiddish speaker, Karney recently produced and co-starred in a
video on the Yiddish Forward (Forverts)'s YouTube channel.
Starring the famed Yiddish actor Mike Burstyn, it's titled "A
Jewish deli experience with actor Mike Burstyn – in Yiddish!",
and features unscripted Yiddish-language dialog as the two enjoy
and discuss Jewish dishes together at Factor's Deli in Los
Angeles. To find out more about Perla Karney, see her bio at UCLA
Hillel: https://www.uclahillel.org/perla_karney_bio

For Pesach: exclusively from The Yiddish Voice archive:


Hasia Segal z"l: sings several Yiddish
Pesach songs


Myer Loketch z"l: radio talk on Pesach
from 2008



Music:

Sidor Belarsky: several songs from the album Seder Nights
with Sidor Belarsky

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





Air date: March 15, 2023