February 5, 2012

Today's show was a two-hour fund raising marathon special in collaboration with Janet Coleman and David Dozer of The Next Hour, which airs on WBAI in the hour just before Beyond the Pale.  We talked with Erika Shefer, the author of Russian Transport, a family drama set in the Russian Jewish community of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn that will be playing at the Acorn Theater on West 42nd Street until March 10th.  And we rebroadcast an interview with David Bezmozgis about his latest novel, The Free World.   Plus guest Shane Baker, executive director of the Congress for Jewish Culture publisher of the Yiddish language collector's item, Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union talked with us about his upcoming performances of The Big Bupkis: A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville.

Beyond the Pale will be preempted for the balance of the winter fundraising drive.  We'll be back on Sunday, March 4th. 

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