Professor Wolf Moskovich, UJE Board Member and well-known linguist, recalls his young years spent in the special Jewish environment of Chernivtsi and the role the city played in his future career.
Childhood in a religious family, connection with relatives who built Eretz Israel, Yiddish as the native language, and 13 more languages that the professor speaks and lectures in. This episode also talks about the Jewish history of Chernivtsi and the transition from vernacular to standard Yiddish. At the end of the podcast, Professor Moskovich recites a moving poem by Yuri Stern, a late activist of the Jewish movement in the USSR and member of the Knesset.
UJE Board Member Wolf Moskovich at The Lviv International Book Fair and Literature Festival, 2017.
Wolf Moskovich, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UJE Board Member, (left) and Petro Rykhlo, Professor, Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature, Chernivtsi National University (right), Chernivtsi, 2017.
Wolf Moskovich, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UJE Board Member, (left) and Petro Rykhlo, Professor, Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature, Chernivtsi National University (right), Chernivtsi, 2017.
Wolf Moskovich, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UJE Board Member at Limmud FSU Inspire, San Francisco, 2017.
Josef Zissels, head VAAD Ukraine, human rights activist (left) and Wolf Moskovich. (Undated photo).
Wolf Moskovich, Board Member, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, Stockholm, 2019.
