Esti Shnek, Michoel Felsenbaum, Miriam Trinh: 72nd Yom Haatzmaut Amid COVID-19

Thanks to tonight's wonderful guests! They were all recorded on
Wed Apr 29 2020, during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, during
the day of Yom Haatzmaut in USA and Motzei (night after) Yom
Haatzmaut in Israel.


יום העצמאות בשעת דער מגפֿה Yom Haatzmaut Amid
COVID-19:
Esti (Jahr) Shnek - a Holocaust survivor
living in Haifa, originally from Jasina, Czechoslovakia. In the
interview Esti recounts that around this day 75 years ago she was
in a subcamp of Dachau, and a few days later was finally liberated
on May 1, 1945 by American soldiers. Miriam Trinh
- the new Editor of "Afn Shvel", the journal of the League for
Yiddish, teacher of Yiddish through numerous institutions,
including Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and founder and director
of "YO - Yiddish-Ort", the new Yiddish cultural organization in
Israel, which is preparing to teach an international Yiddish summer
course through Zoom this summer of 2020. Michoel
Felsenbaum - editor of the Yiddish literary journal
Yidishland, cohost of the national Israeli Yiddish radio broadcast,
and writer, including for the Yiddish Forverts. See also: Facebook
public group page for "ישׂראלדיק ראַדיאָ אױף ייִדיש - רדיו ישראלי
ביידיש - Israeli radio in Yiddish - Израильское радио на идиш" -
https://www.facebook.com/groups/181106619326190/ See also
Yidishland subscriptions through Olniansky:
http://olniansky.com/store/yidishland-subscription/



Historian, and regular Yiddish Voice cohost, Sholem
Beinfeld interviewed Felsenbaum and Trinh.




Music:


Barry Sisters: Exodus

Dovid Esheth: Yerusholayim, Shtot fun Gold (music Naomi
Shemer, origin Hebrew lyrics Naomi Shemer, Yiddish
translation Dovid Esheth)

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





Air Date: April 29, 2020