Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on Words for Armed Uprising; Rav Izchak Kin on Personal History

The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

This week, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Rabbi Izchak Kin.

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is chairperson of the League for Yiddish. She discusses the League for Yiddish's Words of the Week, specifically the recent week devoted to the armed uprising in Russia. We reached her by Zoom on June 9, 2023.

Rabbi Izchak Kin talks about various memories of his personal life, starting with memories of Pesach in his childhood. Rav Kin is a Modzitzer chossid who now lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Israel. This previously unaired recording was made when we recorded Rav Kin's presentation for Pesach 2023.

• Music:
  • Ben-Zion Shenker: a series of songs of the Modzitzer chassidim
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air Date: June 12, 2023