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Poland

Voina and Holocaust

admin January 13, 2012

Michael Steinlauf recalls growing up listening to his parents' war stories, and the moment he realized these stories were part of a larger history. 

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"I'd rather teach the non-Jews"

admin January 13, 2012

Michael Steinlauf, professor of history at Gratz College, expresses the excitement of teaching non-Jewish Polish students.

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Poyln II: Kinder-yorn

Y.Y. Trunk July 07, 2011

Y.Y. Trunk’s 7-volume Poland: Memories and Images is considered one of the most important memoirs of Jewish life in Poland. Trunk began chronicling his life, and the life of Jews in Poland, two days after his arrival in the United States in March 1941. He knew that Europe’s Jews were facing an unimaginable disaster, and his book has been called a “portable literary gravestone for a destroyed community.”

The volume Kinder-yorn (Childhood Years) exists as a Yiddish-language audiobook produced by the Yiddish Book Center and the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. This fruitful collaboration continues, as two Yiddish Book Center Fellows just returned from Montreal with another 200 Yiddish audiobooks on tape, which will soon be digitized and made available for free online! Poyln has also been translated into English and published by the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada.  

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Peretz and his Connection to Polish Jewry

admin June 30, 2011

Professor Ruth Wisse speaks about the monumental importance of Peretz to Yiddish literature and to Polish Jewry. Peretz was invested in Polish Jewry with “all his life and being” and Wisse goes as far as to say that Peretz’s fate was tied to the fate of Polish Jewry.

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Visiting Sholem Asch's Birthplace in Kutno, Poland

admin March 31, 2011

David Mazower discusses what it was like to visit his great grandfather's hometown in Kutno, Poland.

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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (closed)

Randi Silnutzer April 19, 2010

This exhibit was on display at the Yiddish Book Center April 18 - September 26, 2010.

This traveling exhibition was organized by the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, and was curated by scholar and folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

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