Professor Ellie (Elke) Kellman of Brandeis University discusses
her research on the radical Yiddish press in the America of the late
19th and early 20th century. Ellie Kellman researches and writes
about modern Yiddish literature and literary history, specializing
in the history of the Yiddish periodical press and publishing
industry. Her book-in-progress is entitled Reading the New Country:
Abraham Cahan and the Invention of American Jewish Popular
Culture. She is Associate Professor of Yiddish at Brandeis
University, where she teaches Yiddish language and literature and
modern Jewish literature. 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.
Our friend and cohost Dovid Braun provided an announcement
after the interview, namely, the following links to the Ellie
Kellman lecture of July 13, 2020, for the Uriel Weinreich Summer
Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture of the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College. Prof. Ellen
Kellman: Abraham Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish Journalism /
אַב. קאַהנס ערשטע ליטעראַרישע עקספּערימענטן
https://yivo.org/YCLS2020-Kellman
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAJY3wSPFA
To observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we played three
recordings of Holocaust survivors from the Yiddish Voice archives:
Rochel Zicherman, a survivor originally from a small village
in Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovakia, who survived Auschwitz
(recorded in 2019);
Dovid Lenga, a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland, who
survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz (recorded in 2020);
and
Anna Monka ע״ה, a survivor originally from Lida, Poland, a
former Bielski partisan, who sings the partisan song Zog Nit
Keymol (recorded 2009)
Music:
Music: Di Shvue, anthem of the Bund, performed by a youth choir led by Zalmen Mlotek
Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
Air Date: January 27, 2021
