Radiant Others Podcast
radiantothers.bsky.social
Radiant Others Podcast
@radiantothers.bsky.social
A klezmer music podcast hosted by internationally renowned klezmer trombonist Dan Blacksberg. In depth conversations with musicians and artists. Find us wherever you get your podcasts! New episodes every month.
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Our penultimate podcast of 2025 delves into the rarified and mysterious music, Khazones.

@danblacksberg.bsky.social talks with Judith Berkson and Jeremiah Lockwood about a new organization and record label, Khazones Underground!

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Khazones Underground with Judith Berkson and Jeremiah Lockwood - Radiant Others
Our penultimate podcast of 2025 delves into the rarified and mysterious mystical musical form, Khazones. Khazones is Yiddish term for the work of the synagogue cantor, or Khazn. It is music, prayer, s...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New episode for your drive home from wherever you go on Friday! Big news about Ashkenazi cantorial music!! Stay tuned!
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Right on! We played this one a LOT.

Check out my conversation with Dan here and everywhere there are podcasts.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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salute to Meyshke, one of the all time greats of the klezmer revival & beyond, someone who is endlessly curious, thoughtful and generous with his time and knowledge. well deserved
Musician Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
Alpert has been a pioneering singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnographer and educator for over five decades
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November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Can’t wait to get my copy of this new translation by Mikhl Yashinsky!

Mikhl is amazing. Find out more about his life and work with my conversation with him at

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November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Check out Sonia's new article, also our interview from last year on the Radiant Others Podcast. @radiantothers.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We’re loving the chance to share the old and the new with part 2 of our interview with the one and only Daniel Kahn!
enjoying this part 2 interview with @danielkahn.bsky.social on @radiantothers.bsky.social
featuring some great deep discussions about the beauty and challenges of performing unashamedly leftist Yiddish music and finding meaning in old songs. and some old gossip I didn't know about 😅
Daniel Kahn – Part 2 - Radiant Others
It's time for Part 2 of our conversation with singer, songwriter, actor, translator, bandleader and more, Daniel Kahn! We continue right where we left off and dive right in with talking about the very...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Clara Bagelman of the famed Yiddish singers The Barry Sisters was born #OnThisDay in 1920.

With her sister Minnie, the duo represented the integration of Jewish immigrants’ into their new lives in the US: buff.ly/crQUO9Z
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Also love that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social now has a copy of the largest Yiddish weekly newspaper!

Every NY politician should know that Yiddish is alive and kicking 😉
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Thank you as always to @alte.klezmor.im!! So glad you like this interview, especially as someone who has a lot to say on many things Yiddish music yourself!
recommending this podcast interview with Avia Moore, artistic director at Klezkanada & thoughtful observer of the Yiddish music, song and dance world. left me with a lot to think about🤔💭🥹
Avia Moore - Radiant Others
Many listeners of this podcast will know our guest this month, Avia Moore from being an internationally renowned Yiddish dance leader and teacher, and from being a longtime faculty and current artisti...
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July 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Incredibly deep and important conversation that features two of our previous guests, Ira Tenple and Isabel Frey! Also incredible energy and thoughts from Ladino scholar Devin Naar. Thanks to @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social a fb @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for this greatness!

For this week's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social pod I got Jewish language experts Isabel Frey, Devin Naar, and Ira Temple together to talk about Kneecap (the movie). We discuss Irish language advocacy, decolonial solidarity, & efforts to revive Yiddish & Ladino.

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Kneecap and the Politics of Language Reclamation
In light of the eponymous film about the Irish-language rappers, Yiddish and Ladino specialists discuss the relationship between language, music,…
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June 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Dan is in Vancouver this weekend as a guest artist at the Vancouver Klezfest! Tonight he’ll be a sitting in on a tune or two with our most recent podcast guests, Brivele!

The flowers in Vancouver are in full bloom. Here’s a few:
May 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New playlist with music from all Radiant Others episodes (plus some extras!)
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today on the podcast, flautist, composer, teacher, scholar, Adrianne Greenbaum. Adrianne has been at the forefront of bringing the rich tradition of klezmer flute playing into the present day. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/adrianne-gre...
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Marilyn Lerner - Radiant Others
It's our final Radiant Others episode for 2024 and it's a big one. Today on the podcast is pianist, composer and awesome human Marilyn Lerner. Based in Toronto, Marilyn makes music across a really wid...
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January 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM