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Reciting Itzik Manger
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Moshe Fiszman—z"l, Holocaust survivor from Radom, Poland—recites a poem and short story by Itzik manger from memory and remembers hearing Itzik Manger recite his poems in person.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Fiszman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Moshe Fiszman was born in Radom, Poland in 1921.
Other video highlights from this oral history
Reciting Itzik Manger
5 minutes 32 seconds
Secular Literature, Sholem Aleichem and Peretz
2 minutes 15 seconds
My Father Had to Consult Him for Everything: The Rebbe of Radom
1 minute 40 seconds
The Postman Wrote For Us On Shabbes
2 minutes 36 seconds
Radom And The Leather Industry
1 minute 22 seconds
"Ale Mentshn Zaynen Brider (All People Are Brothers)": Theater in the Radom Ghetto
1 minute 43 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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