The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Kadia Molodowsky's View on Yiddishkayt, Religion and Her Disappointment With Israel

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Edith Schwarz, niece of Yiddish poet Kadia Molodowsky, discusses Kadia's view on the relationship between Yiddish and religion, and her disappointment with the State of Israel's treatment of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Edith Schwarz.

This excerpt is in English.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Kadia Molodowsky, My Aunt: a Deeply Religious, but Not Observant, Woman

2 min 1 sec

Kadia Molodowsky's Debate with Edith about Religion and Yiddishkayt

2 min 14 sec

Kadia Molodowsky's Hometown

2 min 24 sec

Kadia Molodowsky as Feminist and Rebel

1 min 10 sec

The Relevance of Kadia Molodowsky's Poetry Today

1 min 10 sec

Edith Schwarz on the Priceless Necklace Kadia Molodowsky Passed Down

1 min 46 sec

Kadia Molodowsky and Her Sisters

1 min 2 sec

Kadia Molodowsky's Apathy for Fashion and Penchant for Papirosn (Cigarettes)

1 min 15 sec

Edith Schwarz on Visiting Kadia Molodowsky's Book-filled Apartment in New York

1 min 40 sec

Edith Schwarz's Chance Meeting with Albert Einstein

1 min 18 sec

Edith Schwarz Talks About Kadia Molodowsky's Literary Themes of Injustice and the Holocaust

1 min 49 sec

Edith Schwarz Discusses Growing Up With Kadia Molodowsky's Children's Poetry

1 min 34 sec

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