Rachel Rojanski: Yiddish in Israel (Part 1); Dovid Braun: Yivo Summer Program 2021

Most of this week's show was taken up with the first part of
our interview with Rachel Rojanski,
discussing her book Yiddish in Israel: A History, published
in English by Indiana University Press in 2020. The
discussion is in Yiddish. This week's show (May 26 2021)
presented the first part of the discussion, with the second
part set to air the following Wednesday, June 2, 2021 (and
later be made available via podcast). Rachel Rojanski is
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University.
She is author of Conflicting Identities: Labor Zionism in
North America 1905-1931 (in Hebrew) as well as many articles
on political and cultural history of East European Jewish
immigrants in the U.S. and Israel. About the book (blurb):


Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held
view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli
authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a
radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish
and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Author Rachel Rojanski tells the
compelling and yet unknown story of how Yiddish, the most
widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared
in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. (Additional publisher
info here:
https://iupress.org/9780253045140/yiddish-in-israel/)




The interview was led by Sholem Beinfeld,
professor of history emeritus at Washington University, St.
Louis, and co-chief editor of the Comprehensive
Yiddish-English Dictionary.




Also, we heard from Dovid Braun, Summer
Program Academic Director at the Yivo Institute, giving an
overview of the upcoming 2021 incarnation of the venerable
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language,
Literature, and Culture. Info online here:
https://summerprogram.yivo.org/




Music:


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

Outro instrumental music: Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer,
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Afn Veg Shteyt A Boym





Air Date: May 26, 2021