Kadimah Yiddish Show, 22nd November, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember the American Yiddish poet and writer Yankev Glatshtein e”h whose yortzayt-death anniversary fell this week.
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 14th November, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and after weeks of serious themes, holidays, commemorations and death anniversaries, we entertain ourselves with the always relevant and sharpwitted humour of the great Yiddish comedians Dzigan and Szumacher.
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 7th November, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we commemorate the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 9th November 1938 and recall the Yiddish ethnographer, poet, writer, polemicist and playwright S Ansky.
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 31st October, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember two Yiddish poets and writers on the occasion of their yortzaytn-death anniversaries this week, the Soviet era poet Moishe Kulbak and the Australian Yiddish poet and writer Jacob Rosenberg.
Kadimah Yiddish Show 24 October, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we’re on the eve of the joyous Simkhes Toyre festival, we accompany the festive spirit with songs and words and a short story. A happy Simkhes Toyre!!
Kadimah Yiddish Show,17the October, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we’re at the beginning of the 8 day Sukkot – Tabernacles Jewish festival, we accompany the festive spirit with songs and words and a beloved Sholem Aleichem short story.
Kadimah Yiddish Show 10th October, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we reflect on the Yomim Neroyim Days of Awe pre Yom Kippur with readings and Yiddish and liturgical songs. A Gmar Khsime Toyve!
Kadimah Yiddish Show 3rd October. 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and in this Rosh Hashana program we accompany the Jewish New Year with readings and Yiddish and liturgical songs. Shana Tova!
Kadimah Yiddish Show 26th September, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, we remember the slaughter of more than 33 thousand Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar outside Kiev on the 29th and 30th September 1941 and as we approach the time of Slichos, repentance before Rosh Hashona the Jewish New Year, we usher in the hol…
Kadimah Yiddish Show, 19th September, 2024
Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we hear the Melbourne “Bashevis Singers” band’s Yiddish album “Gezangen Tzum Eyn Sof – Songs to Infinity”, poems by Hillel Tzaytlin that they set to music and which has been nominated for the Australian Folk Album of the year award.