Vilna Tribute on Yiddish Voice Radio

[Yiddish Voice WUNR1600 <yv...>]

[Of special interest to the readers of this newsgroup, alt.music.jewish,
the featured cantor, Simon Kandler, is, I am told, the oldest practicing
cantor in America.  Enjoy. -yv]

                        Yiddish Voice Presents
                     Vilna - Yerushalayim D'Lite
            A Tribute, on Weds., Dec. 28, 1994, 7:30 p.m.

(Brookline, MA) The Yiddish Voice, a brand new Yiddish-language weekly
radio show in Boston, will present a tribute to "Vilna - Yerushalayim
D'Lite", on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1994, 7:30 p.m. on WUNR 1600 AM.  The
narrators are Dovid Braun and Hasia Segal.

The text of the program was written exclusively for the Yiddish Voice
by renowned Israeli journalist Chaya Lazar to memorialize her native
city Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), which became known among many Jews as
Yerushalayim D'Lite (The Jerusalem of Lithuania) due to the vibrant
Jewish life that flourished there until its destruction by the Nazis
50 years ago.

Chaya Lazar is a well-known Hebrew-language journalist, who writes
frequently for Israeli newspapers. She survived the Vilna Ghetto, and
fought as a partisan against the Nazis. She gave an account of this
period on film for the documentary "Partisans of Vilna".  She is
translator for the Israeli periodical Ghetto Fighters and Partisans,
and she has translated several books from Yiddish and English into
Hebrew.

Hasia Segal is both the producer of this program and co-narrator. A
native of Lithuania, and a retired Hebrew and Yiddish language
educator in Boston, she has written, produced, and hosted numerous
programs for the Yiddish Voice as well as other Yiddish radio shows.

This program marks the debut appearance of Dovid Braun on the Yiddish
Voice. Braun is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at MIT.  He is the
former editor of the international Yiddish-language journal Yugntruf.
He has lectured in and taught Yiddish at such institutions as Gratz
College, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.

Special musical accompaniment for the program includes the voice of
Cantor Simon Kandler of Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill. Kandler, a
native of Latvia, has served the Boston Jewish community for over 60
years.

The Yiddish Voice, which began broadcasting here last July, features
music, poetry, comedy, interviews, news, commentary, and announcements
of current events, all of it in the Yiddish language. For further
information, call (617) 738-1870, send email to yv (at) world(dot)std(dot)com, 
or
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