Episode 27: {redn mit di toyte} Ruth Rubin | רות רובין
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Sosye "speaks" with her hero Ruth Rubin, with help from singers, scholars, and archives. Thank you so much to our participants, David Roskies, Talia Martz-Oberlander, Michael Yashinsky, Adah Hetko, and Eleonore Biezunski. Thanks to the Yiddish Book Center for allowing us to use an archival recording of Ruth Rubin from 1978, and a groyse dank to our first advertising sponsors, the League for Yiddish and the YIVO Summer Program. On the League for Yiddish's website, you can find details about "A Tog Yiddish Seminar" with David Fishman on April 22nd. The YIVO Summer Program this summer, the due date is April 2, so apply fast! Don't forget to check out YIVO's digital exhibition on Ruth Rubin, with 1500 songs, starting April 4, at exhibitions.yivo.org.
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