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Dolph Klainberg's Oral History
Dolph Klainberg, retired social worker, was interviewed on December 3, 2012 by Lynn Yanis at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
This interview was conducted in English.
Dolph Klainberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940.
Video highlights from this oral history
Yiddish Life in Buenos Aires
1 minute 56 seconds
Social Justice As Taught In American Yiddish Schools
3 minutes 14 seconds
My Father Read Sholem Aleichem to Keep us Laughing: The Boat Ride From Buenos Aires to New Orleans, 1947
2 minutes 34 seconds
“Zog Nit Keyn Mol”: Dolph Sings the Partisan Hymn
1 minute 25 secondsArtifacts related to this oral history
1955 print
article clipping with Klainberg
article clipping 2
childhood photograph two boys
old photograph
volveremos
handwriting on yellow paper
handwriting on yellow paper 2
handwriting on yellow paper 3
handwriting on yellow paper 4
Delta line ticket
Delta line ticket receipt
Bronx mittelshul concert program
Bronx mittelshul concert program 2
Yiddish playbill Bronx mittelshul
Yiddish print on yellow paper
Yiddish playwriting
Yiddish playwriting 2
Yiddish playwriting 3
Yiddish playwriting 4
Yiddish playwriting 5
old photograph 2
labor demonstration photograph
Yiddish worker poster
More information about this oral history
Themes:
- Advice
- Family histories
- Childhood
- Jewish Identity
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish learning
- Immigration and migration
- Dance
- Music
- Literature
- Holocaust
- Family traditions
- Jewish holidays
- Israel
- Eastern Europe
- Soviet Union
- Latin America
- Politics and political movements
- Cultural transmission
- Heritage
- Antisemitism
- Jewish community
- Urban
- Dolph Klainberg
- Adolf Klainberg
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- International Workers Organization
- Workmen's Circle
- Argentina
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