Kolya Borodulin, Avremi Zaks (Cont), Gitu Cycowicz, et al: Rosh Hashona-Yom Kipur amid COVID-19

Rosh Hashona and Yom Kipur, the Jewish new year holidays, as well as COVID-19, are a constant theme throughout this show, which features two terrific interviews, along with greetings and announcements by sponsors, friends, and participants in The Yiddish Voice.

Highlights:

• Interview with Kolya Borodulin, director of Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring Yiddish programming, now registering for Fall 2020 classes, all available via interactive audio/video over the Internet! Info: https://circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/

• Interview (continued from last week) with Avremi Zaks, presenter for the Yiddish-language radio program of Kan, the Israeli public broadcasting corporation, interviewed by Sholem Beinfeld, regular contributor to the Yiddish Voice. For Israeli Yiddish radio program announcements, visit the "Yiddish Radio" page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/181106619326190/

• Gitu Cycowicz, a Holocaust survivor originally from Chust, Czechoslovakia, and now an Israeli, gives an extended greeting from her home in Jerusalem

• Lovely New Year's greetings from friends, supporters, and collaborators:

  • Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, chair of the board of the League for Yiddish/Yidish-Lige
  • Hy Wolfe, director of the Hebrew Actors Foundation and CYCO Books
  • Tanya Lefman/Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston
  • Eli Dovek/Israel Book Shop
  • Max Gelerman z"l/Gelerman Family/The Butcherie
  • Cheryl Moore/Moore Family/Cheryl Ann's Bakery
  • Kolya Borodulin, director of Arbeter Ring-Workers Circle Yiddish Program
  • Rabbi Leyzer Maimon, Young Israel of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, NY
  • Leah Shporer-Leavitt, cohost and Yiddish teacher at Boston Arbeter Ring-Workers Circle
  • Sholem Beinfeld, cohost and co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
  • Dovid Braun, cohost and Director of YIVO Summer Program

• Music:

  • Leybele Waldman: Der Nayer Yor
  • Goldie Malavsky: Zochreinu L'Chayim
  • Josef Rosenblatt: Kol Nidre
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

• We wish you all the best for a healthy, happy New Year.

• לשנה טובֿה - אַ גוט געזונט יאָר - גמר חתימה טובֿה

• Thanks to our 2020 High Holiday sponsors!

  • Workers Circle https://www.circle.org/
  • Israel Book Shop https://www.israelbookshop.com/
  • The Butcherie https://www.butcherie.com/
  • Cheryl Ann's Bakery http://cherylannsbakery.com/
  • League for Yiddish http://www.leagueforyiddish.org/
  • Hebrew Actors Foundation http://hebrewactorsfoundation.org/
  • CYCO Books https://www.facebook.com/groups/307415619354386

Air Date: September 23, 2020