Daniel Galai (Repeat); Hy Wolfe (Repeat)

Daniel Galai wrote about the sorry recent
demise of the daily Yiddish-language broadcast in Israel in his
recent article in the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), titled (in
translation) "Troubling Fate For Israeli Yiddish Radio". The
article is here:



http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/204522/troubling-fate-for-israeli-yiddish-radio/


We reached Daniel Galay by phone in Israel. Daniel Galay is
Chairman of Leyvik House (http://www.leyvik.org.il/), the
Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel, as well
as a composer and pianist. (This interview originally aired Jun
18, 2017.)




Hy Wolfe -- actor, singer, co-president of
the Hebrew Actors' Foundation -- talks about recent
developments with the organization and his vision for its
future. (This interview originally aired on Aug 23, 2017.)




The show began with Adam Gruzman's "Israel
Report", courtesy of the Forverts Sho on the web at
yiddish.forward.com.




For Thanksgiving we played the historic "Interview with the
Turkey", written and performed by the late great radio host,
actor, and cantor Ben Gailing.




In honor of the 9 yortsayt of our friend, Mrs. Gertrude
Brand, we played music by her late husband, the late great
concert violinist Percy Brand, as heard on the Ben Gailing
show some time in the late 1990's




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




Outro instrumental music: AFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM performed by
Itzhak Perlman, Dov Seltzer, and the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra




Air Date: Novermber 22, 2017