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Yiddish radio interview with literature scholar Avraham Novershtern

The professor emeritus from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem now serves as director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv

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By Forverts Staff June 27, 2023

On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM ET, the Boston-based radio show Dos Yidishe Kol (The Yiddish Voice) will air its interview with Avrom Novershtern, professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who currently serves as the director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv, a cultural center devoted to Yiddish and the Eastern European Jewish Heritage.

The interview is in Yiddish and will be aired on this week’s radio show heard in the Boston area and also streamed simultaneously on the Internet and soon after made available via podcast. The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / דאָס ייִדישע קול), Boston’s weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com.

The program recording is also generally available directly on the web shortly after the broadcast here:

https://podcast.yv.org

Also available wherever you get your podcasts, such as:

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

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Yiddish-Voice-Podcast-Podcast/B0BXF7YYJY

For more information visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email radio@yv.org or follow @TheYiddishVoice on Twitter

Rukhl Schaechter and Zach Golden are the staff of the Forverts, the Yiddish Forward.

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