SBS Yiddish
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Alex Dafner's farewell to listeners of Yiddish & English
Regrettably and as you may have already read or heard, the SBS Yiddish programs as such, which have been transmitted on 3EA-SBS Radio over some 38 years, will no longer be transmitted after the start of May 2013. The last full Yiddish program wil...
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Interview with Actor Rafael Goldwasser
Alex Dafner speaks with the renowned Yiddish actor Rafael Goldwasser, of the "Luft Teater" in Strasbourg, France, who has come to Melbourne to perform at the Kadimah, in Melbourne, in May 2013.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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ANZAC Day Tribute
We pay tribute the Australian and Jewish combatants of all the wars in the 20th century, in honour of the ANZAC Day, 25th April.
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Max Kohn's Thanks & Farewell
Our European correspondent Max Kohn says goodbye and thanks Alex Dafner, the hundreds of individuals he interviewed on this program over five years and the Yiddish listeners in Australia and around the World.
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Interview with Alexander Frenkel
Our European correspondent Max Kohn, in his last SBS interview speaks with Alexander Frenkel from the St Petersburg Jewish Cultural Centre, about his and its activities and Yiddish lessons in that city famous, beautiful Russian city.
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"Zog Nit Keynmol-Partisan Hymn"
Partizans' Hymn
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 70th Anniversary Commemoration
In honour of the 70th anniversary of the heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the 19th April 1943, we commemorate this historic event.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Debate Over Education Funding In Australia
There are mixed reactions to the Labor Government's planned reform of education funding. There's strong opposition to the proposal to divert funding from universities to schools, yet educators who work with disadvantaged students say the reforms ...
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Interview with Odette Stein
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Odette Stein in Paris, about her father's book of memoirs, currently being translated from Yiddish to French, in which amongst other experiences he recounts his fight against Franco in the Spanish Ci...
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Yom Hazikaron Israel’s Memorial Day and Yom Ha’atzmaut,...
In honour of the Yom Hazikaron-Israel's Memorial Day and the Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's 65th Independence Day, which follows it, we commemorate and celebrate these important dates.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Daniel Galay in Tel Aviv
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Daniel Galay, the chairman of the Writers and Journalists Union in Israel, himself a writer and composer, about the activities of the union, the status of Yiddish in Israel and his own current creati...
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Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Commemoration Program
On this Holocaust Commemoration day, Yom Hashoah, Khof Zayen Nissan on the Jewish calendar, we present a special commemorative program to the honoured memory of the 6 million Jews killed during WWII.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Mottle Linhart
Mottle Linhart is a German born convert to Orthodox Judaism, a Satmar and Betzer sects Hassid, a "Mashgiekh" supervisor of kosher products throughout Northern Europe, member of the Free Masons and B'nai Brith lodges, internet user and speaker of a...
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Korean War Threats Crisis
The tense situation on the Korean Peninsular is worsening and although we are already used to such episodes between the North and South Korean brother enemies, it seems that this time the danger could serious. Alex Dafner presents this report pre...
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Interview with Simon Malkes in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the President of the O.R.T schools Simon Malkes in Paris, about these famous trade institutions, his own international professional career and dramatic story of survival in Vilnius during the second ...
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Passover Festival Feature
Passover is the oldest Jewish festival, the festival of liberation from slavery and exodus from Egypt. During the thousands of years of celebrating Passover under various circumstances and in various lands, many other meanings and rituals have be...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Harmony Day 2013 and Multiculturalism in Australia
Every year since 1999, the 21st of March has been designated as Harmony Day, in honour of Australias cultural diversity. It falls on the same day as the International Day for the elimination of Racism at the UN. This year it also comes together ...
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Interview with Violette Szmajer in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Violette Szmajer, Yiddish singer in Paris about her teachers, Yiddish songs and performances.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Proposed Reforms to Australian Media Laws
The Australian Government has just proposed reforms to the Australian media laws. The changes include new ways of handling complaints against media services and guarantees to uphold diversity of the media here, but as Alex Dafner recounts in this...
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Inteview with Rochelle Zucker
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Rochelle Zucker of the Yiddish radio program in Winnipeg, Canada.
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis
The Syrian civil war has created a refugee crisis, which has reached one million refugees living it terrible temporary conditions in the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey and threatening the already unstable situation in Lebanon ...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia's Looming Housing Crisis
It is hard to imagine that in an enormous land like Australia, with a relatively small population of 22 million souls there would be a shortage of housing affordable to the average Australian, particularly because of a shortage of land for that pu...
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Interview with Erez Levy in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Erez Levy of the Medem Centre Arbeter Ring in Paris, about his road to Yiddish and associated psychoanalytical journey, as well as his work as a translator.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Erez Levy in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Erez Levy of the Medem Centre Arbeter Ring in Paris about his road to Yiddish and associated psychoanalytical journey.
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Controversy Over Use of Drones in US & Australia
The controversy over the use of armed and unarmed drones in conflicts, debated recently in the USA, has also its echoes in Australia. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Greg Dyett of SBS News and Current Affairs.
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Purim Festival in History and Now
The joyous festival of Purim, which took place in ancient Persia some 2340 years ago, has a lot of parallels with what is going on between the modern Persia, Iran and the Jewish state, Israel. Alex Dafner considers the Purim history and its simil...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Michel Kornfeld in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Michel Kornfeld, a hidden child in WWII and more recently a member of the Yiddish "Troym-Dream" Theatre in Paris.
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Australian Multicultural Reactions to Geert Wilders
Multicultural organisations in Australia claim that the anti-Islamic Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders could use his visit to Australia for self-education. Wilders argues that Islam and democracy are incompatible and he warns about the dangers ...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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5th Anniversary of Apology to Stolen Generation
Five years since the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's official apology to the Aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders who were taken from their parents, the so called stolen generation, is the topic still an open wound for those who suffered. Ale...
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Interview with Rabbi Yosef Pewzner in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Rabbi Yosef Pewzner of the Chabad-Lubavitch about his work in Jewish Education and on Yiddish radio in Paris.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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The Yiddish Forverts-Forward in 2013
The Yiddish Forverts-Forward newspaper of NY, the oldest continuing Yiddish newspaper in the world, appearing since 1897, has transformed itself recently from a weekly into a fortnightly printed paper, whilst increasing the frequency of reports an...
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Lloca Czackis About the Yiddish Tango
Our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke in Paris recently with the singer and classical music researcher Lloca Czackis, originally from Beunos Aires, about the Yiddish Tango and especially the tangos composed during the Holocaust.
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UN Human Rights Mission Condems Israel's Settlement...
Israel reacted critically to a report by the Human Rights Council of the UN condemning Israel's settlement policies on the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Alex Dafner presents this summary prepared by Andrew Bolton of SBS News and Current Affairs.
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"Katyusha"
Stalingrad
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Stalingrad Victory 70th Anniversary
The 2nd February marked the 70th anniversary of the historic victory of the Red Army over the German forces at Stalingrad, a victory which spelt the end of the Hitler Nazi regime. Yosef Feder was a decorated Russian officer who survived the battl...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Overview of Main Events of 2012
Alex Dafner gives this overview of the main events, which occurred in Australia, Israel and the World in 2012.
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Interview with Naftali Ejdelman of Yiddish Farm
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Naftali Ejdelman, the co-founder of the Yiddish Farm near NY, USA.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Overview of Main Events of 2012, Pt.1&2
Alex Dafner gives this overview of the main events, which occurred in Australia, Israel and the World in the first three quarters of 2012.
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Overview of Main Events in 2012, Pt.1
Alex Dafner gives this overview of the main events, which occurred in Australia, Israel and the World in the first half of 2012.
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Interview with Genha Migdal in Sao-Paulo, Brazil
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Yiddish teacher and translator Genha Migdal in Sao-Paulo, Brazil.
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UNESCO Symposium on Yiddish with Hinde Burstin
Hinde Burstin, Australia's representative at the UNESCO symposium on Yiddish, held in Paris recently, talks with Alex Dafner about this historic gathering and some of the interesting projects and work presented.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the anti-drug campaigner and ardent Zionist activist, Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky in Rio de-Janeiro, Brazil.
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Australia's Foreign Aid Policy Shift Criticised
Australian Government's changes to their policy on foreign aid, toward funding maintaining of asylum seekers, has been criticised by opposition and NGO sources. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Amanda Cavill of the SBS News and Curren...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Berta Loran in Rio de Janeiro
Berta Loran a renowned artist with the largest TV Global network in Brazil, had once performed with the some of the biggest stars of the Yiddish stage in the world, as she recalls in this chat from Rio de Janeiro with our European correspondent Ma...
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World and Australian Reactions to Doha Climate Conference
After two weeks of intensive discussions at the climate conference in Doha recently, an interim agreement was reached, namely to keep talking. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Erdem Koc of the SBS News and Current Affairs.
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Chanukah Festival of Lights in Jewish and World History
We hear Dr Mark Varshtendik, e'h, about Chanukah the Festival of Lights and its significance in Jewish and World history. A happy Chanukah everyone!
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australian Israel Relations and Israel's Gas Project
We report on the currently more strained relationship between Australia and Israel and the Australian investment interests in Israel's potential gas field exploration.
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Interview with Pinchus London in Rio de Janeiro
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speak with Pinchus London in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about his life, work, his large collection of Yiddish songs and films and dedication to the Yiddish speaking community in Rio.
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Hungarian MP's Antisemitic Proposal
This week came the disturbing news from Hungary about a Parliamentarian from the right-wing, nationalistic Jobbik party, who called for a list of Hungarians of Jewish origin to be drawn-up. This is the latest in a row of anti-Semitic incidents an...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Tribute to Vladka Meed Warsaw Ghetto heroine
We honor Vladka Meed, a heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943, who passed away in the USA on the 21st November 2012.
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Australia Changes Its Vote o Palestinian UN Status
Australia changed its vote regarding the Palestinian status at the UN, just before it was due to be voted on there. This immediately raised questions whether the Labor Government, who had recently won a seat for Australia at the Security Council ...
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Interview with Izabela London in Rio de Janeiro
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Isabela London in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about her life-journey from Europe to South America and her love and work for Yiddish.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Allison Posner in Amherst, MA, USA
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with another young Yiddish teacher and organiser at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, USA, Allison Posner.
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Australia at East Asia Summit
Australia at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia The East Asian summit, which took place in Cambodia with the participation of 16 of amongst the most important leaders in the world, including US Pres Barack Obama and Australian PM Julia Gillard, ...
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Interview with Sebastian Schulman, Amherst, MA, USA
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with another young Yiddish teacher and organiser of the translation project at the Yiddish National Book Center in Amherst, MA, USA, Sebastian Schulman.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Leon Jedwab in Melbourne
Leon Jedwab survived the Holocaust in many terrifying places including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald concentration and death camps. Since 1946 he has lived in Melbourne and recently he helped publish a new book about his hometown in Poland, b...
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Royal Commission on Sexual Abuse of Children in Australia
Church groups, victims and their families have broadly welcomed a planned royal commission into child sex abuse, saying it will help protect vulnerable young people. The commission will cover all religious institutions, state-based organisations,...
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Intverview with Asya Vaisman in Amherst, MA
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Asya Vaisman, a young teacher of Yiddish at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, USA.
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Interview with Mendy Cahan in Tel Aviv
A two day international symposium on Yiddish at the UNESCOs quarters begins tomorrow, the 12th November 2012 in Paris and our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke, just ahead of the gathering in Paris, with Mendy Cahan the founder and director of...
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Remembrance Day 11-11-2012
We remember and honour the Jewish Australian and other combatants, on this Remembrance Day, the 11th of November.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Prof Avraham Novershtern in Tel-Aviv
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Prof Avrom Novershtern about the Yiddish language and literature courses at Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel-Aviv and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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QANTAS Reassures Israelis and Live Sheep Trade Suspended
Theres absolutely no connection between these stories, except for the timing, as Alex Dafner reports these two events from Australia. Firstly the main Australian air passenger carrier QANTAS reassures holders of Israeli passports and visas that t...
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Interview with Berthe Burko-Falcman
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the writer Berthe (Brukha) Burko-Falcman about her deep love of Yiddish, the Medem Centres and Library in Paris and memories of her childhood as a hidden child in France during WWII.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia's White Paper on Asia Questioned
Questions are being raised about the Australian Labor Governments policy on Asia announced in a White Paper last Sunday. The policy calls for more teaching of Asian languages in Australian schools, and making Australian business leaders more awar...
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Interview with Rachel Jediniak in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Rachel Jediniak about her frightening years as a hidden child during WWII in France and difficult life after the war in Paris, as well as her current dedication to telling the children in the French ...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Georgette Blajchman
Georgette Blajchman talks with our European correspondent about her childhood memories of life as a child in Vichy France and her current work telling students in Paris about the Holocaust .
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Australian Law re Older Skilled Migrants Debated
Calls are being made to lift or abolish the age restriction for General Skilled Migrants to Australia. At present the cut-off is 50 years. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Andrew Bolton of SBS News and Current Affairs.
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Georgette Blajchman's Childhood Memories of Vichy France
Georgette Blajchman recounts her childhood memories of life as a hidden child in Vichy France, in this interview with Max Kohn in Paris.
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Interview with Adi Mahalel About I L Perets
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Adi Mahalel who is doing his PhD doctorate at Columbia University in NY, on the Yiddish classicist I L Perets during his radical years, .
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Complaints Against Australia's O/s Trained Doctors
Complaints against Australian overseas trained doctors are far more numerous than against locally trained doctors, according to a new study at Melbourne University. Alex Dafner presents this report about the findings, produced by Phillippa Carisb...
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Intervview with Prof Bernard Kanovitch
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Prof Bernard Kanovitch, the CRIF's - French Jewish roof organisation's representative about bio-medical ethics and Jewish-Muslim relations and dialogue in that country.
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Interview with Bernard Kanovitch
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the CRIF - French Jewish Roof Organisations Bernard Kanovitch, about the Jewish-Muslim relations and dialogue in that country.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australian FM Sparks Controversy re Assasination of Assad
We report about the controversy the Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has caused over his remarks about the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Alex Dafner presents the report prepared by Kate Stowell and Andrew Bolton of SBS News and Current Af...
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Interview with Dr Ben Korman OAM in Perth
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the co-founder of the Holocaust Institute in Perth, Western Australia, Dr Ben Korman, OAM.
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Festival feature for Sukkot, Hashana Rabbe, Shemini...
We celebrate the current Yontovim Jewish festival of Sukkot, Hoshana-Raba, Shemini-Atzeres and Simkhes-Toyre.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Could Australia help solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict if it gets voted in, to sit temporarily on the UN Security Council? Alex Dafner considers this question according to the report by Peggy Giakoumelos of the SBS News and Current Affairs de...
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Interview with Leyzer Burko in New York
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the scholar and researcher of Yiddish linguists and part-time Yiddish actor Leyzer Burko of New York.
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Israel & Middle East Report
In the absence of Adam Gruzmans report from Jerusalem this week, we make our own overview of the events which occurred in and around Israel during the past week.
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Interview with Dr Agi Legutko at Maryland University
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Dr Agi Legutko from Maryland University, about her research, doctorate and upcoming conference on the Dybbuk, possessed soul, in modern Yiddish literature and drama and about her own fascinating Poli...
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Interview with Vice Chancellor of Monash Prof Leon...
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Vice Chancellor of Monash University, Prof Leon Puterman, about his work, research in general medicine and psychiatry, China and his Polish Jewish background.
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Interview with Izak Kimelblat, WWII Partisan now in Rio...
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the WWII Partisan from the Ukraine and now resident of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Izak Kimelblat.
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Asutralian Reactions to Violent Muslim Protest in Sydney
An overview of Australian reactions to the violent actions by some Muslim protesters, during the demonstration in Sydney last Saturday. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Darren Mara of the SBS News and Current Affairs department.
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Rosh Hashana Jewish New Year 5773 Feature
We usher in the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana and the solemn atmosphere of the Yomim-Neroyim, in word and song from secular and traditional Yiddish-Jewish literary and traditional sources. Wishing all a happy, healthy and peaceful Rosh Hashana, J...
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Interview and Song with Violaine Lochu
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Violaine Lochu, a non-Jewish student of Yiddish from Brittany, France and the singer and accordionist with the Klezmer band Mashke, in Paris.
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Australia Invokes Pacific Solution to Asylum Seekers
We catch up with the developments around the painful issue of asylum-seekers coming by boats to Australia and their sending to the islands of Nauru and Manus in Papua New Guinea for offshore processing. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared b...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Assoc Prof Danny Ben-Moshe about...
Danny Ben-Moshe, Associate Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne, is the co-producer with Prof Dovid Katz previously of Vilnius, of the documentary Rewriting History, about attempts to obfuscate the Lithuanian involvement in the genocide of it...
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Interview with Marcel Mittelman
Our European Correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Marcel Mittelman about his lifes journey, from birth in a DP camp in Germany, via France, to Melbourne, Australia.
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Munich Olympics Massacre 40th Anniversary
We commemorate the murder of the 11 Israeli Olympians at the Munich Olympic Games, by Palestinian Black September terrorists, on this day the 5th September 1972, 40 years ago. Alex Dafner presents this feature prepared by Ron Sutton of the SBS Ne...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Evgenia Dodina in English
The Israeli actress and special guest at this year's Australian-Israeli Film Festival, Evgenia Dodina stars in the film "Invisible", a sensitive story about rape set against the backdrop of other sensitive events, as Alex Dafner found out when he ...
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Interview with Lucille Eichengreen
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Lucille Eichengreen, a former secretary in the ghetto office of the infamous Emperor of Ghetto Lodz, Chaim Rumkowski about him and her book about those terrifying experiences.
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Ghetto Lodz Commemorative Prog+Thes
We commemorate the anniversary of the longest lasting and 2nd largest Ghetto, Lodz, in Poland, with its 250 thousand martyred Jewish inhabitants, on this the anniversary of its liquidation
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Interview with Dr Itay Zutra in Winnipeg
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Dr Itay Zutra, lecturer in Yiddish language and literature at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Fleur Kuhn in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Fleur Kuhn a graduate student of amongst others Yiddish literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Australia's Education Funding Reforms
The Premier Minister Julia Gillard announced her Labor Government's new approach to school funding in Australia, based on equal funding for students in state or private schools. This is good news for amongst others Jewish schools, which are becom...
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Interview with Arnold Zable re "Melbourne...
We speak with writer, editor Arnold Zable about the new special edition of the "Melbourne Chronicle"-"Melburner Bletter", bilingual English-Yiddish journal, published in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Cultural Centre and National Li...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australian Asylum Policy Changes & Jewish Community...
The debate over the issue of asylum seekers and refugees reignited dramatically in the Australian Parliament, the Jewish community and the broader community last week. Alex Dafner presents this summary of the debate produced by Amanda Cavill, And...
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London Olympics, Jewish Achievements and Regrets
We summarise how the Jewish Olympians performed at the London Olympics and the controversy around the commemoration of the 11 Israeli Olympians and trainers murdered at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago.
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Interview with Dr Wilk Wolkowicz in Paris
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Psychoanalyst and Paediatrician, Dr Wilk Wolkowicz in Paris, about his professional career, his family background and his survival during WWII.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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60th Commemoration of Soviet Yididsh Martyr Poets
We honor the memory of the Yiddish Soviet poets, writers, artists and intellectuals murdered by the Stalin regime on the 12th August 1952, exactly 60 years ago today.
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Olympics' Jewish history
The Olympics, which open with great ceremonies and parades in London on the 27th July, 2012, are as in previous years an event for which Jews have mixed feelings, pride and regret. Alex Dafner presents this glance at the mixed history of Jews at...
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Interview with Dr Diana Matut about "Yiddish Weimar...
The Yiddish music and culture festival Yiddish Summer Weimar, in the city of Weimar, Germany began 4 days ago and will continue over the next 4 weeks until the 21st August. One of the organisers of the month long Yiddish festival is the German Yi...
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Tribute to Dr Janusz Korczak, e"h
We honour the legendary, martyred Polish-Jewish, Paediatrician, writer, broadcaster and children's rights advocate, Dr Janusz Korczak, e"h, on this his birth anniversary and 70 years after his murder in Tremblinka Concentration Camp.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Beni Warshawsky in Los Angeles
Out European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Beni Warshawsky in Los Angeles about his fathers survival during the Holocaust, about searching for his rescuer, a French Jewish soldier and about how the terrible stories of the period can be passed...
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Anti-Uranium, Land Protests at Olympic Dam Mine Project
It's been awhile since such loud and colourful anti-uranium, anti-nuclear protests have taken place in Australia, as those which occurred at the Olympic Dam in the desert north of South Australia last week. The protests also include an element of...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Tribute Feature to Avrom Sutzkevee, E"h
We remember the great Yiddish poet and Vilnius partisan Avrom Sutzkever, Eh, on this his birthday anniversary and we hear about him and also his own recorded readings of his wonderful creations in poetry and prose.
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Interview with Claude Hampel in Paris
Out European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the editor of the socio-literary journal Yidishe Heftn and producer presenter of the Yiddish Hour radio program Claude Hampel, in Paris.
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Aboriginal Population Up in Census 2011
The last Census 2011 showed a growth of 21% of those Australians who identify themselves as being of Aboriginal background. This high growth in numbers came as a bit of a surprise to the authorities, but not to the Australian Bureau of Statistics...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia's Carbon Tax Debate Continues
The controversial Carbon Tax was officially launched in Australia this week and the debate over it has continued to rage. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Peggy Giakoumelos and Dawn Tratt of the SBS News and Current Affairs department...
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Interview with Stephan Blank in Rio de Janeiro
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Stephan Blank from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about his familys background, Yiddish and Jews in this South American country.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Arrival of Holocaust Survivor Refugees in Melbourne
The Polish-Australian Yiddish writer Herz Bergner eh, described in one of his books, in a chapter titled Refugees, the scene and feelings around the arrival of the first survivors of the Holocaust, to Melbourne in the 1940s. Alex Dafner reads fro...
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Interview with Rabbi Menachem Klein in Frankfurt
The long serving Orthodox Rabbi of Frankfurt, Germany, Rabbi Menachem Klein was born in Jerusalem and always spoke Yiddish at home, be it in Israel or in Germany. Our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke with Rabbi Klein about that and about the...
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Australia's Asylum Policies Under Pressure
The pressure on the Federal Government to solve the problem of growing numbers of asylum seekers heading for Australia and risking their lives in small, over packed boats, intensified following the latest tragedy at sea when some 90 people drowned...
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Interview with Maya Ajzen in Mexico
With the world's attention on Mexico and the G-20s meeting there last week, our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke with the former Mexican Yiddish teacher Maya Ajzen, about the Jewish community and education in Mexico before and now
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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New Directions for Multicultural Policy in Australia?
Migrant community groups hope a new direction in multicultural policy will emerge through a federal parliamentary inquiry that is expected to release its final report in August. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Michael Kenny of the SB...
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Refugee Day Interview with Dr Arnold Zable
The 20th June is the annual International Refugee Day in Australia and around the world and we speak about the ongoing and complex problem of refugees with the writer and refugee activist Dr Arnold Zable from Melbourne, Australia.
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Interview with Ruth Hazan in Turku, Finland
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Ruth Hazan, once a Professor of Mathematics and Councillor in the City of Turku, the former capital of Finland, about her life and the life of the small Jewish community there.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Meishe Dryzun in Turku, Finland
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Meishe Dryzun in Turku, once the capital of Finland, about Yiddish language and Jewish life there, as well as about his own family and their origins.
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Australian Dementia Inquiry
More than a quarter of a million Australians live with dementia and it is expected that the number will treble before the year 2050. Now a Federal Parliamentary inquiry has begun looking into how Australia is preparing to deal with such a clinica...
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Interview with Boris Sandler Pt.4
Interview with the visiting award winning Yiddish author and chief editor of the Yiddish "Forverts" in NY, the oldest (1897) continuously published Yiddish newspaper in the world, Boris Sandler. Boris tells Alex Dafner about his presentation in M...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Rabbi Chazan Albert Kirch and his Legion...
We hear the Rabbi and Chazan Albert Kirch, a recipient of the Legion dHonneur for his bravery in the French Resistance during WWII, speak and sing with our European correspondent Max Kohn.
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Interview with Boris Sandler Pt.3
Interview with the visiting award winning Yiddish author and chief editor of the Yiddish "Forverts" in NY, the oldest (1897) continuously published Yiddish newspaper in the world, Boris Sandler. Boris tells Alex Dafner about his presentations in M...
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Interview with Rabbi Pawlak from Warsaw
Alex Dafner speaks in English with the visiting Warsaw Rabbi Maciej Pawlak, Poland's first Polish-born Orthodox Rabbi, since the Holocaust and director of the Lauder Morasha Jewish Schools in Warsaw, about Jewish life in Poland today.
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Interview with Boris Sandler Pt.2
Interview with the visiting award winning Yiddish author and chief editor of the Yiddish "Forverts" in NY, the oldest (1897) continuously published Yiddish newspaper in the world Boris Sandler, about the Forverts in the past, present and future.
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Interview with Boris Sandler Pt.1
Interview with the visiting award winning Yiddish author and chief editor of the Yiddish "Forverts" in NY, the oldest (1897) continuously published Yiddish newspaper in the world, Boris Sandler. Boris tells Alex Dafner about his presentations in ...
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Australia Debates Overseas Worker Contracts
The Australian Government has announced that 1700 overseas skilled workers will be permitted to work in Gina Rinehart's Pilbara, W.A. mining project, provoking criticism and reactions from unions, business and engineering associations and parliam...
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Shevuot (Pentecost) Festival Feature
The happy festival of Shevuot (Pentecost) celebrates the receiving of the ten commandments, the Torah, by Moses at Mt Sinai, Megilas Rut, story of Ruth, the greenery of nature and dairy foods. Its traditional to eat cheesecake and other dairy del...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview Norbert Krukin Helsinki
Our European correspondent Max Kohn talks with Norbert Kruk, a member of the Helsinki Yiddish Choir, which exists in the Finnish capital more than 40 years, about the choir and his own family background.
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Prof Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate for Peace, Writer,...
Our European correspondent Max Kohn talks with the world renowned writer, Nobel Laureate for Peace and Professor at Boston University Elie Wiesel.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australian Unions in Crisis
After revelations which shocked the Australian Unions and threaten the very existence of the 150 year old movement, came promises of far more accountability and transparency, put forward at the ACTU National Union Congress held in Sydney this week...
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Interview with Serge Blisko about the new French...
We hear an interview with Serge Blisko the Parisian Socialist Party Deputy in the French Parliament, speak with our European correspondent Max Kohn about the new President Francois Hollandes likely economic policies and attitude to Jews and Israel...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Lag B'Omer Festival
The Lag B'Omer festival has its roots in dramatic events which occurred in ancient Israel, including stopping of plague, the mystical and Kabbalah, the Barkochba revolt against Rome and more. Its traditional to have weddings, picnics, games with ...
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V-E Day - Victory in Europe - 9th May 1945
We mark the official V-E Victory in Europe day, the 9th May 1945 and hear about the hundreds of thousands of Jewish combatants, especially in the Red Army and the memories of the highly decorated officer Yosef Feder, who fought from Stalingrad to ...
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Interview with Pekka Levanto
We hear another interesting conversation with a non-Jewish Finn, Pekka Levanto who has learned Yiddish and reads classic and modern Yiddish literature even today, as he tells our European correspondent Max Kohn from Helsinki.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia's Economic Prognosis Rosy
On the one hand the federal government reassures us constantly that the economic situation here is rosy and on the other hand the Reserve Bank has just cut interest rates on loans by a half a per cent in order to stimulate the economy. Who is rig...
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Interview with Prof Simo Muir in Helsinki
Prof Simo Muir, a non-Jew who has become a scholar and teacher of Yiddish and Yiddishkeit at the University of Helsinki, in Finland, speaks with our European correspondent Max Kohn about his road to Yiddish and his past and current research. &n...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha'atzmaut
The Yom Hazikaron, Israels Memorial Day in honour of all those who fell in the wars and battles fought by the Jewish State, including those who perished tragically due to terrorism there, is commemorated the day before the Yom Haatzmaut, Israels I...
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ANZAC Day 2012
The national ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, the 25th April, commemorates and honours the combatants of all the wars and battles in which Australians and New Zealanders fought since the late 19th century. During these numerous battles and...
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Interview with Gideon Bolotiowsky in Helsinki
Our European correspondent Max Kohn held an interesting interview with Gideon Bolotowsky, the former longterm President of the Jewish community in Helsinki, in which he tells the story of his familys background and the fascinating history of the J...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Holocaust Commemorative Program
To the 19th April, Khof-Zayen Nisn, Holocaust Memorial Day on the Jewish calendar, we pay tribute to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators and the heroic Warsaw Ghetto fighters and resisters in all ghettos, concentration...
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Australian Troops in Afghanistan Plan
What does Australia plan to do with its military forces in Afghanistan? Following the announcement made by Prime Minister Julia Gillard this week, it became a little clearer, however these plans are not without their critics, as Alex Dafner recou...
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Interview with Dr Elie Buzyn and his Auschwitz Tattoo
An intriguing interview with Dr Ellie Buzyn, a man who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, became an eminent surgeon and whose tattooed concentration camp number was removed, preserved, filmed and then… stolen. Max Kohn spoke with Dr Buzyn in Pa...
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Australian Syrians' Perspectives on Conflict in Syria
We hear what Australians of Syrian origin think about the bloody conflict in their former homeland in this report presented by Alex Dafner, prepared by Santilla Chingaipe of the SBS News and Current Affairs department.
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Interview with Ralph Hofmann in Frankfurt
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Ralph Hofmann the Executive President of Bnai Brith in Europe, in Frankfurt, Germany, about the activities of this world Jewish organisation and a little about his own family's background.
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Passover in Tradition and Today
Passover, the oldest Jewish festival, a celebration of liberation from slavery, has an ever relevant meaning for Jews in all times. Alex Dafner presents this glance at the adaptations and relevance of Passover traditions in our modern epoch. ...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview Jaco Guinsburg in Brazil
Jaco Guinsburg was a professor of theatre studies, a writer and a book publisher in San Paulo, Brazil. He talks with our European correspondent Max Kohn about his family background from Bessarabia, about language and the Yiddish theatre in Brazil...
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Interview with Bejla (Berta) Bialy-Sneh
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Bejla (Berta) Bialy-Sneh in Buenos Aires, Argentina, about her immigrant family life, about the once highly developed Yiddish education system in Argentina and about her husband the writer Simcha Sne...
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Interview with Bejla (Berta) Bialy-Sneh
Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Bejla (Berta) Bialy-Sneh in Buenos Aires, Argentina, about her immigrant family life and about the once highly developed Yiddish education system in Argentina.
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Australia at Nuclear Summit in Sth Korea
World leaders, including the Australian PM Julia Gillard participated in the summit conference in Sth Korea, to deal with the urgent issue of the danger presented by nuclear terrorism. The two day conference, with the superpowers the USA, Russia, ...
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Hungarian Jewish Holocaust & Interview with Joshua Jeger
Last week, the 19th March marked the anniversary of the beginning of the end for the last, large Jewish community left in Europe during WWII, the Hungarian Jewish community. Alex Dafner briefly recalls the history of the events which led up to the...
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Hungarian Jewish Holcaust and interview with Joshua Jeger
Last week, the 19th March marked the anniversary of the beginning of the end for the last, large Jewish community left in Europe during WWII, the Hungarian Jewish community. Alex Dafner briefly recalls the history of the events which led up to th...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Harmony Day in Australia
Harmony Day is celebrated in Australia every 21st March, coinciding with the UNs International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Alex Dafner presents this report about this day in Australia and about associated issues, from a repo...
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Shock Over French Jews Murdered in Toulose
The atrocity carried out in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, when a Rabbi and his two young sons, as well as a girl, were murdered by a gunman, has shocked France, the world and the Jewish communities in particular. Controversy over ...
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Israel & M-E Report from Jerusalem
Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.
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Interview with Rosette Tama-Zylbersztein
Our European correspondent Max Kohn chats with the Psychoanalyst Rosette Tama-Zylbersztein in Paris, about placing Yiddish at UNESCO, the Education, Science and Cultural oreganisation at the UN and what that could mean for the Yiddish language and...
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