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Planning a Future: What I Learned From Reading Dovid Bergelson
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Harriet Murav, translator of Yiddish literature, shares her thoughts on the author David Bergelson, his passion for Yiddish literature, and his plans for helping to revive it after World War I.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harriet Murav.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
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Planning a Future: What I Learned From Reading Dovid Bergelson
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Yiddish Isn't a Hard Language to Learn!
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Why Should You Read David Bergelson?
1 minute 45 seconds
Who is Jack? Yiddish Permeated the Atmosphere
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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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