"Becoming a part of history": working at YIVO in the 1990s
Cecile Kuznitz, professor of Jewish History at Bard College, reflects on her time working at YIVO (the Yiddish Research Center in New York City), and wonders at how the 90s are already a historical...
View Article"Let's do our own little cottage industry of taping all the Yiddish...
Ron Finegold, former employee of the Montreal Jewish Public Library, explains the idea behind recording audio book versions of all the classics of Yiddish literature. The Yiddish Book Center is...
View ArticleThe Little White Goat
Diana Bregman Feld reads a poem written by her mother, poet Edith Kaplan Bregman. Edith wrote the poem in honor of the children of her home town who were murdered by the Nazis.
View ArticleScanned this week: 67 Lider
Scanned this week: 67 Lider, Melech Ravitch, 1946. An collection of wartime poems by one of the great Yiddish modernists....
View ArticleScanned this week: Di broyne bestye ("The Brown Beast")
Scanned this week: Di broyne bestye ("The Brown Beast"), Leyzer Volf, 1943. A posthumous collection of antifascist poems by one of the founders of the literary group Yung Vilne.
View ArticleYiddish in the Academy
In this ongoing series, the Wexler Oral History Project interviews prominent figures in Academia contributing research in areas related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture. Wexler Oral...
View ArticleDoused in Jewishness
EX113_347 Micha Eisenstorg explans how a French cartoon based on a fable from Roman times is an analogy for his innate sense of his Jewish identity.More from this narrator: Micha Eisenstorg
View ArticleJoining a Zionist Group in Cuba
EX71_217 Lili Bermant z"l talks about joining a zionist youth group while she was living in Cuba and becoming disillusioned while part of it.More from this narrator: Lili Bermant
View ArticleFrances and Hubert Brandt fund new online digital library
Thanks to a generous gift from Frances and Hubert Brandt of Lido Beach, NY, we are now working with the Jewish Public Library of Montreal to safeguard 1,500 reel-to-reel recordings featuring interviews...
View ArticleMy father's break with Bashevis
EX70_113 Norman tells a story of his father (Yiddish writer Leon Feinberg) running into Isaac Bashevis Singer, after writing him off as a sensationalist that sold out his own community.More from this...
View Article"I always felt different."
EX67_293 Harriet Bonfeld explains how she felt different from her peers, being well educated and connected to the Yiddish literary world through her father, Leon Feinberg.More from this narrator:...
View Article"Immodestly Yours..." Sometimes the inscriptions are as interesting as the...
David Mazower shares insights from the inscriptions in his collection of Yiddish books signed by their authors.read more
View ArticleJewish Students' Changing Relationship to Yiddish
EX150_433 Eugene Orenstein, Emeritus Professor of Yiddish and Modern Jewish History at McGill University in Montreal, discusses the change in his students' knowledge of Yiddish since the 1970s.More...
View Article"They liked my Amerikaner Yiddish": talking books project at the Montreal JPL
Malca Sussman Hubner describes her involvement with the Montreal Jewish Public Library's talking Yiddish books program, for which she was a narrator.
View ArticleMy First Experience With the Yiddish Book Center
EX61_256 Nancy Sherman tells the story of first meeting Aaron Lansky, the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, while doing an interview for Hadassah magazine.More from this narrator: Nancy Sherman
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