Raphael Finkel, Christa Whitney

Raphael Finkel, Professor of computer science
at University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, in
Lexington, KY, interviewed at the Yidish-Vokh in August 2017,
discussed the vast collection of Yiddish resources he maintains
online, largely with software he created, such as a searchable
Yiddish-English dictionary and a searchable archive of the
complete works of the writer Sholem Aleichem. Professor
Finkel's Yiddish resources web page is online here:
https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html See also Prof.
Finkel's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel


Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book
Center's Wexler Oral History Project, discussed Beyle:
The Artist and Her Legacy, a a documentary short film
currently in production of which she is producer and
co-director. The film is about Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the
late Yiddish activist poet, and artist. A kickstarter campain
is currently underway to fund the film. See:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yiddishbookcenter/beyle-the-artist-and-her-legacya-yiddish-book-cent
Dovid Braun, who was and remains active in
Beyle's extended Yiddish neighborhood, participated in the
interview.

Music: Zumerteg: performance, words, and music by Beyle
Schaechter-Gottesman; Harbstlid: performed by Janet Leuchter and
Meyshke Alpert, words and music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS from Jeff
Warschauer: The Singing Waltz



Air Date: October 18, 2017