Ellie Kellman: Radical Yiddish Press; Holocaust Remembrance Day

Professor Ellie (Elke) Kellman of Brandeis
University discusses her research on the radical Yiddish
press in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Ellie Kellman researches and writes about modern Yiddish
literature and literary history, specializing in the history
of the Yiddish periodical press and publishing industry. Her
book-in-progress is entitled Reading the New Country: Abraham
Cahan and the Invention of American Jewish Popular Culture.
She is Associate Professor of Yiddish at Brandeis University,
where she teaches Yiddish language and literature and modern
Jewish literature. The interview is conducted by Sholem
Beinfeld, a regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice,
co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English
Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington
University, St. Louis. Our friend and cohost Dovid
Braun provided an announcement after the interview,
namely, the following links to the Ellie Kellman lecture of
July 13, 2020, for the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in
Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture of the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College. Prof. Ellen
Kellman: Abraham Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish
Journalism / אַב. קאַהנס ערשטע ליטעראַרישע עקספּערימענטן


https://yivo.org/YCLS2020-Kellman


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAJY3wSPFA




To observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we played
three recordings of Holocaust survivors from the Yiddish
Voice archives:




Rochel Zicherman, a survivor originally
from a small village in Carpathian Ruthenia in
Czechoslovakia, who survived Auschwitz (recorded in
2019);




Dovid Lenga, a survivor originally from
Lodz, Poland, who survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as
Auschwitz (recorded in 2020); and




Anna Monka ע״ה, a survivor originally
from Lida, Poland, a former Bielski partisan, who sings
the partisan song Zog Nit Keymol (recorded 2009)






Music:


Music: Di Shvue, anthem of the Bund, performed by a youth
choir led by Zalmen Mlotek

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





Air Date: January 27, 2021