Kadimah Yiddish Show
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 26th December, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the anniversary of the founding of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, on this day in 1936 and hear the captivating story of its foundation, founders, musicians and conductors and beautiful music. And the Kadimah Yiddish Show is …
56:25
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 19th December, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we’re in the midst of the Chanukah festival of Lights, we hear another interesting historical perspective on the festival, as well a I L Perets monologue in honour of Chanukah and some lovely Chanukah Yiddish songs.
55:42
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 12th December, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we approach the happy 8 day Chanukah festival of Lights, we hear an interesting historical perspective on the festival, as well an entertaining Chanukah Story by Sholem Aleichem and some lovely Chanukah Yiddish songs.
55:28
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 5th December, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we recall the “grandfather” of modern Yiddish literature, Mendele Moykher Sforim e”h, on the occasion of his yortsayt-death anniversary, which falls on this Sunday the 8th December and hear a couple of his fine short stories.
55:36
Kadimah Yiddish Show. 28th November, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, we remember the United Nations' plan to partition Mandatory Palestine known as Resolution 181, adopted on the 29th November, 1947 and in honour of his upcoming yortsayt-death anniversary we remember David Ben-Gurion e”h, and hear him speak…
56:23
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 21st November, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember the American Yiddish polemicist, writer, and poet Jacob Glatstein e”h and hear some of his poems, which still resonate in this day and age.
54:46
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 14th November, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of YIVO the Institute for Yiddish Studies in Vilnius, now in New York and we hear two of the excellent speakers from the 100th anniversary celebration Prof David Roskies and Prof David Fish…
55:49
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 7th November, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, we recall the tragic assassination of the Israeli Premier Minister Itzhak Rabin, e”h, we remember the Yiddish writer, playwright, ethnographer and political activist Sh Ansky and we commemorate the horrific Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom agains…
55:42
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 31st October, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember two Yiddish poets and writers, whose yortzaytn – death anniversaries fell this week Moishe Kulbak e”h, from Vilnius and Jacob Rosenberg e”h, from Melbourne.
55:25
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 24th October, 2025
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we’ll hear about two interesting museums dedicated to the memory of the once vibrant Polish Jewish communities of Lublin and Bialystok.
55:02