Summer Programs Amid COVID-19 with Trinh, Matut, Schmitges, Viswanath, Wolfe

We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year.
לשנה טובֿה - אַ גוט געזונט יאָר


Hear a roundtable discussion of three 2020 Yiddish summer
programs and how they've managed with the COVID-19 circumstances.
Our particpants:




Hy Wolfe / חיים וואָלף - we're delighted to
welcome Hy on board as guest co-host of this week's show! Hy
Wolfe is an actor, head of the Hebrew Actors Union
Foundation, head of CYCO Yiddish Book Center, multi-decade
participant in Yidish-Vokh [New York]




Miriam Trinh / מרים טרין - head of Yidish
Ort, Yiddish teacher at both Yidish-YO and YIVO 2020 summer
programs, Yiddish lit and language teacher at Hebrew U.,
editor of Afn Shvel [Jerusalem]




Andreas Schmitges / אַנשיל שמיטקעס - Curator
and Board member of Yiddish Summer Weimar (and of Other Music
Academy) [Weimar]




Diana Matut / דינע מאַטוט - one of the
Yiddish teachers of Yiddish Summer Weimar [Weimar]




Meena-Lifshe Viswanath / מינע ליפֿשע
ווישוואַנאַט - Treasurer of Yugntruf, lifelong
attendee of Yidish-Vokh, an active particpant in the planning
of Yidish-Vokh in her role as member of Yugntruf's board
[Maryland]




Music:


Leibele Waldman: Der Nyer Yohr

Theo Bikel: Di Yontevdike Teg

Shmuel Malavsky and Family: Unesanneh Tokef (Rosh Hashana
and Yom Kippur Musaf)

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





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Air Date: August 26, 2020