Perla Karney: from DP Camps in Bavaria to Los Angeles

The 'Yiddish Voice' Podcast

• This week's featured interview is with Perla Karney, discussing her journey from childhood in the Jewish displaced persons community around Bavaria, Germany, to finally settling as a young woman in Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA and had a career as a theater producer before taking on her current role as artistic director of the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Karney recently produced and co-starred in a video on the Yiddish Forward (Forverts)'s YouTube channel. Starring the famed Yiddish actor Mike Burstyn, it's titled "A Jewish deli experience with actor Mike Burstyn – in Yiddish!", and features unscripted Yiddish-language dialog as the two enjoy and discuss Jewish dishes together at Factor's Deli in Los Angeles. To find out more about Perla Karney, see her bio at UCLA Hillel: https://www.uclahillel.org/perla_karney_bio
• For Pesach: exclusively from The Yiddish Voice archive:
  • Hasia Segal z"l: sings several Yiddish Pesach songs
  • Myer Loketch z"l: radio talk on Pesach from 2008
• Music:
  • Sidor Belarsky: several songs from the album Seder Nights with Sidor Belarsky
  • Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air date: March 15, 2023