Kalman Weiser

Interview with Kalman Weiser, discussing the
late Yiddish language scholars Solomon (Shloyme) Birnbaum and
Noyekh Prilutski. Professor Keith (Kalman) Weiser is the Silber
Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University,
Toronto. His research focuses in the area of modern Jewish
history and culture, specifically about language issues in Jewish
life. His publications include Jewish People, Yiddish Nation:
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (University of Toronto
Press, 2011) and the introduction to Shloyme Birnbaum's Yiddish:
A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition (University of Toronto
Press, 2016). 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. Dr. Beinfeld served as principal
consultant on the film Partisans of Vilna (credited as Solon
Beinfeld). He was senior consultant and historian to the Kovno
Ghetto Exhibition project of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and consultant to the Museum on the Ghetto archive
holdings in the Lithuanian State Archives in Vilnius.

Music performed by Miryam-Khaye Seigel, from album Toyznt
Tamen:

A Meydele Fin Poyln

Di Apikorsim

Furn Fursti fin Mir Avek

Nyu-York Nyu-York

Besarabye



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



Air date: February 6, 2019