אינטערעסאַנטע לעקציע

http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/radio/podcast/lecture_59.mp3

"From Chaim Potok to Philip Roth, Jewish American writers have contributed memorable works to the modern literary landscape. However, Hana Wirth-Nesher, professor of English at Tel Aviv University, believes earlier Jewish American stories are misunderstood, and not read in the way older writers, like Lamed Shapiro intended them to be read. In a lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center, Wirth-Nesher, Director of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, reads from Shapiro’s 1919 short story 'New Yorkish,' and describes some of the complexities of the Yiddish and Hebrew languages that get lost in translation."