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A Father's Childhood Memories of Crimea
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Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin - master teacher at Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring - recounts his father's memories of living in Crimea, where many Jewish families settled.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin was born in Birobidzhan, Russia in 1961.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
Other video highlights from this oral history
A Father's Childhood Memories of Crimea
1 minute 36 seconds
A Week in Yiddishland at Circle Lodge with Workmen's Circle
1 minute 26 seconds
Discovering My Family History Through Proverbs
4 minutes 4 seconds
Advice for Yiddish Learners: Have a Real Interest in Yiddish
1 minute 7 seconds
I Started Studying Yiddish Because I Was Offered A Job To Teach It In Birobidzhan
1 minute 45 seconds
Discovering Chancellor Murphy’s Connection To Birobizhan on My First Trip To America
1 minute 37 seconds
Creating Yiddish Games for Children
1 minute 18 seconds
Learning Yiddish from a Soviet Textbook
2 minutes 11 seconds
What Is Rosh Hashanah? Discovering Jewish Culture at Age Eighteen in Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region of the Soviet Union
4 minutes 32 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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