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A Lingua Franca Everywhere: Speaking Yiddish and Opening Doors
EX390_2188 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes how Yiddish has helped her in her travels in places as diverse as Paris and Costa Rica.
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Beyond Anatevka: The Challenges of Documenting Yiddish Life without Yiddish
EX390_2191 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, reflects on the complexity of Eastern European Jewish life and the ways in which modern film and literature have failed...
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The Jewish Community of Passaic, New Jersey
EX392_2214 Troim Katz Handler, daughter of Yiddish poet Menke Katz, describes the large and diverse Jewish community in her hometown of Passaic, New Jersey.
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Six "Nicaraguans" in Lwów: Escaping Poland During World War Two
EX381_2765 Alex Lauterbach, a retired chemist, relates the remarkable story of his family's circuitous - and dangerous - escape from Poland: an journey that required several passports (legitimate and...
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Performing Mordechai Gebirtig at Yad Vashem
EX408_3207 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, on the poet Mordechai Gebirtig and the experience of performing Gebirtig's work at Yad Vashem in Israel.
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Not English, Yiddish!: Yiddish Awareness in Poland and Abroad
EX410_2636 Małgorzata Maciejewska, graduate student in Jewish Studies at University of Wrocław, tells us about the time a soldier in Vilnius mistook 'Yiddish' for a mispronunciation of another...
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From the Morning to the Evening: Transcribing Jewish Gravestones in Mikulov,...
EX410_2639 Małgorzata Maciejewska, graduate student in Jewish Studies at University of Wrocław, talks about her experience with the cemetery and life of a Jewish community in Mikulov, Czech Republic.
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When Yiddish is the Lingua Franca
EX442_2631 David Schorr, a retired forensic engineer, relates his experiences travelling around the world, and finding that sometimes - still! - Yiddish is the common language.
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My Grandparents’ Attitudes Toward and Uses Of Yiddish
EX412_3041 Kamil Kijek, doctoral student in History at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, recalls his maternal grandparents' different ways of relating to Yiddish.
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More Deeply Engaged in the Space: How Studying Jewish History Has Changed My...
EX412_3086 Kamil Kijek, doctoral student in History at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, explains how his understanding of Kielce and Warsaw has changed along with his growing knowledge of...
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From Military Academy to Jail: My Grandfather, an Assimilated Jew in Soviet...
EX412_3042 Kamil Kijek, doctoral student in History at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, talks about his grandfather's experiences in Soviet Russia.
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"It was black market money": First Impressions of Poland under Martial Law
EX421_3186 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, explains what it was like to have her first visit to Poland in 1981...
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Bring Forward the Sources: Approach to Language(s) at the Museum of the...
EX421_3197 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, explains how different languages relevant to the history of the Jews in...
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"That Was Sort of An Amazing Experience": Getting Polish Citizenship
EX421_3198 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, tells the story of finally getting her Polish citizenship.
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Orange Organza, Blue Organza: Celebrating an Exhibition of Jewishness in...
EX421_3199 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, recalls how her father's paintings of Opatów, Poland came to be...
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Jewish in Japan
EX513_3034 Eli Bromberg, a former Steiner student at the Yiddish Book Center, describes his year living in Japan, and attending High Holiday services at the only synagogue in Kobe. Oral History: Eli...
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"He Meant Nothing To Me”: Twenty Years Apart from His Father, Isaac Bashevis...
EX491_2352 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, talks about the ambivalence he had for his absentee father as a young man and his doubts before reuniting with him after...
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Family Reunion: Meeting His Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer, After Twenty Years...
EX491_2354 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, describes his reunion with his father after twenty years. Oral History: Israel Zamir
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Coming to America: A Labor Zionist's Perspective
EX491_2358 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, speaks to his impressions of America during his stay there from 1966-1969. Oral History: Israel Zamir
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Israel Zamir Recalls Attending the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony of His Father,...
EX491_2359 Israel Zamir, the son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, recalls attending the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1978 as an Israeli reporter - including a story he'd never told before of how he...
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