Yiddish on the Radio!

YIDDISH on the RADIO

Our very own District Committee member Hershl Hartman was featured in a radio interview on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, on the Boston-based radio show Dos Yidishe Kol (The Yiddish Voice). He discussed his work as a Yiddish journalist, an educator in secular Yiddish-oriented schools, and as a Yiddish-to-English translator. The interview is in Yiddish and can also be accessed through the following sites:

https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/

Apple Podcasts and iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yiddish-voice-podcast/id915622071?mt=2

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n8zB32RXs7rDFsf7fguOO

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/yiddish%20voice

Hershl Hartman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. He has been a leader at the Sholem Community in Los Angeles for more than fifty years, serving as Education Director/vegvayzer since 1967, and is a valued member of the Southern California Arbeter Ring/Workers Circle's District Committee.

Hartman holds degrees in Secular Jewish education and in Yiddish journalism. As a very young man, he became the first American-born Yiddish newspaper reporter, having written for the Morgen Freiheit when it was a New York City daily with a print run in the thousands. In recent years, he has worked as a professional translator from Yiddish to English, translating both literary works, including poetry, and personal documents and correspondence.

His literary translation work has appeared in the online Yiddish studies journal In Geveb (https://ingeveb.org/people/hershl-hartman), and he contributed to the translation of the book The Jews of Felshtin (https://felshtin.org/).

The interview was recorded earlier in July, on Zoom by regular host Mark David.

The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / דאָס ייִדישע קול), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, can be heard live every Wednesday on www.WUNR.com from 4:30 to 5:30 PM (Pacific time) or live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com.