Nick Underwood: Yiddish Paris; Dovid Braun: Yiddish Studies at YIVO: an Update

This week, interviews with Nick Underwood and Dovid Braun!

• Interview with Nick Underwood on Yiddish Paris and Nick's book Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which describes the rich Yiddish-speaking culture of emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris during the interwar years. The interviewer is Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of The Yiddish Voice, co-chief editor of Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis.

• Interview with Dovid Braun, Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics at the Max Weinreich Center at Yivo and academic director of YIVO’s summer program, who gives an update on recent and upcoming opportunities for Yiddish studies at YIVO. See YIVO.org's website for classes starting in early September, 2023.

• Music:

  • Songs loosely related to the theme Yiddish Paris:
    • Vira Lozinsky: In Pariz (À Paris) (Yiddish lyrics by Mikhoel Felsenbaum, translated from Francis Lemarque's original lyrics in French)
    • Dave Cash: Paris New York
    • Ana Vinocur: Dos Libn fun Pariz
    • Dave Cash: Dave Cash fun Pariz
    • Ludmila Shapira: Der Parizer Tango
    • Dave Cash: S'faln di Bleter (Autumn Leaves) (Les Feuilles Mortes)
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air Date: August 23, 2023