Gennady Estraikh: Ukraine

Interview with Gennady Estraikh discussing
the war in Ukraine. Estraikh, who was born in Zaporizhzhia,
Ukraine, is a professor at NYU who specializes in Jewish
intellectual history, Yiddish language and literature, and
Soviet Jewish history. He has written numerous books,
academic papers, and journal and newspaper articles in
English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish, notably for the
Yiddish Forverts. He served as managing editor of the famed
Yiddish literary journal Sovetish Heymland from 1988 to 1991.
His books include Yiddish Culture in Ukraine (Kyiv: Dukh i
Litera, 2016, in Ukrainian) and Transatlantic Russian
Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts
in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Academic Studies
Press, 2020). The interview took place over Zoom on Friday
March 4, 2022, and was led by Sholem
Beinfeld, regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice,
co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English
Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington
University in St. Louis.




Music:


Emil Gorovets: Reyzele

Tatiana Vayntraub: Gitara

Sidi Tal: Nokhemke

Emil Gorovets: Ikh Bin a Yid

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





Air date: March 9, 2022