LET'S GET LIT: Peeling back the onion of Günter Grass

The German novelist and poet, best-known for his novel The Tin Drum, died this week. Dr. Michal Ben Horin, an Israeli expert in post-war German literature, joins TLV1 to discuss the complicated legacy of the man who kept his Nazi past hidden until his last decade.

ILENE IN: On the language of mothers and grandmothers

Host Ilene Prusher leans in on the feisty grammarian she grew up with (a.k.a. Mom) and the Yiddish-inflected English of the grandmother she misses.

We like Likvornik's groove

Dana Likvornik is an Israeli singer-songwriter with a voice deep and powerful beyond her years. Straddling the worlds of groove and R&B, she composes songs about ordinary life in an extraordinary way. She plays two songs from her new album for us in the studio.

Remember the women

Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, an NGO based in NYC that promotes the integration of women into history, joins TLV1 to discuss her book, The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.

The horror after the camps

Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto of Yad Vashem talks about the Holocaust story that rarely gets told: The horrors faced by survivors when the war was over. This was the focus of Yad Vashem's remembrance day this year, based on the "First Letters" written by survivors after the war.

The neatest necks in town

Neat founder Ido Kadmon talks about how he and Hilla Yachimoviz created a design that helps fashionistas and frum dressers add a stylish, preppy, and downright neat collar to just about any outfit under the sun.

Music:

Nena - 99 Luftballons
Florence + The Machine - St Jude
Radiohead - Just
Dana Likvornik - Ken Rotza
Noam Rotem - Aley Zikaron
Chava Alberstein - Lechil Ish Yesh Shem
David Bowie - Fashion