Shmerke Kaczerginski's guest appearances

Shmerke Kaczerginski

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Justin Cammy

Eddy Portnoy

Jeremy Dauber

Abigail Pogrebin

David Kaufman

Josh Lambert

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sholom Aleichem

Danny Kaye

Alix Wall

Joan Nathan

Harold Bloom

Gerri Chanel

Grace Paley

Saul Bellow

OwlTail

In a conversation with filmmakers Alix Wall and Marc Smolowitz, we learn about their collaboration on "The Lonely Child". Their film will tell the story of Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginski’s song, “Dos Elnte Kind,” or “The Lonely Child,” which he wrote for Alix’s grandmother in 1943 while she was in the Vilna Ghetto. Alix’s vision for the film is “to engage those keeping the song alive in a dialogue, exploring the central question: just what is our responsibility to the survivors and their stories? It is not lost on me that a song will outlast all of us; a film will as well.”Episode 0159October 4, 2017 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

In a conversation with filmmakers Alix Wall and Marc Smolowitz, we learn about their collaboration on "The Lonely Child". Their film will tell the story of Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginski’s song, “Dos Elnte Kind,” or “The Lonely Child,” which he wrote for Alix’s grandmother in 1943 while she was in the Vilna Ghetto. Alix’s vision for the film is “to engage those keeping the song alive in a dialogue, exploring the central question: just what is our responsibility to the survivors and their stories? It is not lost on me that a song will outlast all of us; a film will as well.”<br>Episode 0159<br>October 4, 2017 <br>Yiddish Book Center <br>Amherst, Massachusetts

Episode 0159: "Alix Wall on the Legacy of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s Song, “Dos Elnte Kind”