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Chava Rosenfarb's Talent for Painting, Murals, Sculpture, and Tapestry-Making

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her mother's passion and talent for visual arts, including painting, sculpture, and mural and tapestry-making. She describes her mother's dedication to those pursuits in betwee...

Chava Rosenfarb's Recreation of Her First Poems, Originally Destroyed by Nazis

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her mother's path to publishing her first book of poems, from writing them in the Lodz Ghetto, seeing them destroyed by Nazis, and rewriting and memorizing them in secret in th...

Bergen-Belsen Diary: 1945

"I Feel a Connection to You"

Chava Rosenfarb Was a Loving, Warm-Hearted Mother

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her mother's attentive and loving parenting style.

Parents' Experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her parents' experiences as teenagers in the Lodz Ghetto, their deportation to Auschwitz, and their experiences following the camp's liberation.

Throwing My Mother's Yiddish Writing Down the Incinerator as a Child

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes the experience of having a writer as a mother, including wanting more attention from her and throwing her writing down the incinerator out of frustration.

Interactions with Yiddish Writers in My Childhood

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, names some of the writers who came to her parents' house when she was a child and describes some of her interactions with them.

Goldie Morgentaler

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 21, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2016-07-21

Setting Yiddish Poetry to Music

Henri Oppenheim, klezmer musician based in Montreal, describes the process that led him to his album "Tur Malka," if which he sets Yiddish poetry to music. He recalls how he found the poetry of Chava Rosenfarb, and his surprise at receiving a grant a...

Getting a Job Teaching Yiddish by Knowing How to Say "Orange"

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, discusses how her relationship to Yiddish has changed over her lifetime, and shares the story of being hired as a Yiddish teacher at NYU simply because she knew the word for "orange" in ...

"They Had No Sense That It Was a Language": American Jews' Dismissive Attitude Towards Yiddish

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes the shock she experienced when she went to university in the United States and experienced the condescending and dismissive attitudes of her professors towards Yiddish.

Chava Rosenfarb’s Montreal, with Goldie Morgentaler

Chava Rosenfarb

Reading Resources for Chava Rosenfarb's Survivors

Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays

Chava Rosenfarb's daughter and translator, Goldie Morgentaler, visits with us this week to talk about the recently released Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays.

Survivors: Reading Resources

Celebrating Yiddish Women Writers

Henri Oppenheim

Henri Oppenheim, klezmer musician based in Montreal, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 18, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2016-08-18

Jack Lewin

Jack Lewin, Yiddish poet and actor based in Los Angeles, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

2013-10-16