The Kadimah Show

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we commemorate the 85th anniversary of the horrendous slaughter of more than 33 thousand Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev and celebrate the festivals of Sukkes, Hoshana Raba and Simkhes Toire.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we welcome the joyous festival of Sukkot, Feast of Tabernacles, with history, stories and songs. A happy Sukkot-Sikkes festival!

Alex Dafner presents current events from Australia and we mark the Yomim Neroyim, Days of Awe between Rosh Hashona the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement. So, Shona Tova, an easy fast and a Gmar Khsime Toyve!

Alex Dafner presents current events from Australia and we usher in the Yomim Neroyim and Rosh Hashone, the Jewish New Year 5,787 with word and song. Leshone Toyve, a happy, healthy and peaceful new year!

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the anniversary and recall the historic Czernowitz Yiddish Conference of 1908.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we commemorate the once great Polish Jewish centres of Bialystok and Lodz, cities whose ghettos were liquidated at the end of August 1943 and 1944.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we promote the Kadimah’s International “Yidlid” Yiddish song competition (see: www.kadimah.org.au ) and try to inspire song composers with some examples of popular Yiddish songs of the past 50 plus years.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the yortsayt - death anniversary of the Soviet Yiddish writers, poets and artists murdered by the Stalin regime on the 12th August 1952 and we remember the wonderful singer of their poems Emil Gorovets e”h, on the occasion of his yortsayt - death anniversary on the 17th of August.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the yortsayt - death anniversary of the Yiddish satirist and humourist Yosef Tunkel e”h aka “Der Tunkeler-The Dark One” and we hear a little about him and some of his humorous creations.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we pay tribute to the two great Yiddish actors Rafael Goldwaser e”h and Shmuel Rudensky e”h and we hear a little about them and some of their fine performances.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the yortsayt - death anniversary of the great Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate for Literature 1978, Itzhak Bashevis Singer e”h.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and to mark the yortsayt - death anniversary last week of the great Yiddish writer and playwright Sholem Asch e”h, we hear three of his fine short stories.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the yortsayt - death anniversary of the great Yiddish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch e”h

Alex Dafner recalls the National Yiddish and Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik e”h on his yortsayt – death anniversary and commemorates the horrific Kielce pogrom of the 4th July, 1946.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we mark the yortsayt - death anniversary of the wonderful Yiddish poet and writer Chaim Grade e”h, and we hear a little about him and some of his memorable creations.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we honour the memory of the founder of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Bronislaw Huberman and the proletarian Yiddish poet Morris Rosenfeld.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember the Yiddish writer, poet, satirist and polemicist Itzhak Rayz e”h, better known by his pseudonym Moishe Nadir.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember the most beloved composer of Yiddish songs Mordkhe Gebirtig e”h, on the occasion of his tragic yortzayt-death anniversary on the 4th of June.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we hear a short history of Melbourne’s 114 year old Yiddish oriented Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we celebrate the festival of Shavuot and also honour the memory of the great Yiddish comic Yisroel Szumacher on the occasion of his yortsayt-death anniversary.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we hear an interview with Mikhl Yashinsky about the so-called Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, Detective Max Shpitzkopf and other things, conducted on Boston’s Yiddish Voice program.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we commemorate the 8th May, anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the bloody Second World War and hear a Jewish Red Army officer talk about two decisive battles that led to that victory.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and on this 1st of May we hear a little about the history of this workers’ day here in Australia, around the world and among Jewish workers. And on the occasion of his yortsayt-death anniversary, we remember the so called Poet of the Holocaust Itzhak Katzenelson e”h.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember the Vilnius partisan, poet and great Yiddish song composer Shmerke Kaczerginski, e”h, and as tomorrow is ANZAC Day, we commemorate and honour the Australian Jewish ANZAC combatants.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we approach the significant dates of the 19th April, the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Israel’s Remembrance Day and Independence Day, we focus on these significant three dates in today’s program.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, and as we’ve just ended Passover we entertain ourselves with a bitter-sweet Sholem Aleichem Passover story and reflect on how this festival of freedom is closely linked with the start of the heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and in honour of the yortsayt-death anniversary of the so called “Father of Modern Yiddish Literature”, I L Peretz e”h, we hear a little about him and a few of his wonderful creations.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we are preparing for the joyous festival of Passover we entertain ourselves with two pre-Passover stories by our Yiddish classicists Mendele Mocher Sforim and Sholem Aleichem.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we find ourselves in a state of deep concern for Israel and Jewish communities around the world, we lift our spirits a little with some Yiddish humour from previous tough times for Israel and the Jewish people.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we hear about Jewish women’s contribution to the struggle for rights and equality and about their contribution to Yiddish culture, literature and poetry.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we remember Dr Emanuel Ringelblum e”h and play some inspiring songs of courage and hope.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and as we’re preparing for the joyous festival of Purim, the happiest day on the Jewish calendar, we entertain ourselves with some rousing Purim Songs and Purim stories.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we recall two of the most popular Yiddish poets, writers in pre-war Poland Zusman Segalowicz and Itzik Manger e”h.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and on the occasion of his yortsayt - death anniversary we remember the great Yiddish novelist and older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Israel Joshua Singer e”h.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and in consideration of the historic days we are living through currently in Australia we present a short history of the esteemed Jewish presence in Australia, from the beginning of the colony in 1788 until today.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, we commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day of the 27th January, we hear about the history of Nazism in Australia and we remember the Australian Yiddish author Hertz Bergner e”h.

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 on a break until the end of January 2026. So, a happy, healthy and peaceful 2026

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.

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.

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.

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 in Yiddish about these historic events.

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.

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 Fishman.

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 against Jews in Germany and Austria on the 9th and 10th of November 1938.

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.

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.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia and we recall the Yiddish writer Yehudah Elberg e”h and hear two of his engaging short stories.

Alex Dafner presents current events reports from Australia, as we’re in the midst of the festival of Succot and the coming celebrations of Hoshana Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret and Simchas Torah, we reflect this festive time of the Jewish year also in today’s program.