Reyze Turner from the Yiddish Scene in Paris

This show starts a series of interviews with activists on the
Yiddish scene around the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem
Library starting Wednesday June 12 2019 at 7:30 PM with
an interview with Ri J. (Reyze) Turner.


Ri J. (Reyze) Turner Ri J. Turner is a
translator and Yiddish language teacher at the Paris Yiddish
Center-Medem Library, as well as an MA candidate in Yiddish
Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a
three-time alumna of the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program at YIVO
in New York, and was a Translation Fellow of the Yiddish Book
Center in Amherst, MA, in 2014 and 2018 and the National
Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Fund in 2018. Her
translations and original writing have appeared in In Geveb,
Pakn Treger, the Forverts, Afn Shvel, and elsewhere.

Interviews in the series will continue in following weeks
with Yitskhok Niborski and Gilles Rozier, with announcements to
follow.

The interviews are conducted by Sholem
Beinfeld, He is Professor Emeritus of History at
Washington University in St. Louis, and is perhaps best known as
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English
Dictionary (Arumnemik Yidish-English Verterbukh), as well as a
translator of Yiddish texts and creator of new subtitles for
classic Yiddish movies. The Dictionary is based on the
Yiddish-French Dictionary edited by Yitskhok Niborski and
published by the Medem Library/Paris Yiddish Center. Sholem's
connection with the Medem Library goes back many decades,
beginning with his Fulbright Fellowship in Paris as a graduate
student.

Music

Yiddish Princess (vocals: Sarah Mina Gordon) : Ver Vet
Blaybn (lyrics: Avrom Sutzkever)

Dudu Fisher: Moyshele (lyrics: Mordkhe Gebirtig)

Myrna Rabinowitz: Mayn Tate (words and music: Myrna
Rabinowitz)



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



Air date: June 12, 2019