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

Edith Schwarz, niece of Yiddish poet Kadia Molodowsky, reminisces about Kadia visiting for every Jewish holiday and attending services with her.

Kadia Molodowsky's Debate with Edith about Religion and Yiddishkayt

Edith Schwarz, niece of Yiddish poet Kadia Molodowsky, outlines her debate with Kadia about religion, Jewishness, and Yiddish culture, specifically Kadia's commitment to Jewish community, food, and culture, but not organized religion.

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

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.

Edith Schwarz

Edith Schwarz, niece of Yiddish poet Kadya Molodowsky, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 19th, 2018, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

2018-03-19

Kadya Molodovsky: A Woman Novelist Rediscovered

Kadia Molodowsky- a conversation with Abraham Tabachnik

Kadia Molodowsky- a conversation with Abraham Tabachnik

Kadia Molodowsky's Debate with Edith about Religion and Yiddishkayt

Language Gives Us Roots: A Yiddish Teacher Explains "Why Use Yiddish?"

Anna Fishman Gonshor, Faculty Lecturer of Yiddish Studies at McGill University and Montreal-based Yiddish activist, reflects on how language informs our sense of identity and quotes the Yiddish poet Kadya Moldowsky.

Molodowsky’s Embrace

"I'm a Poet, I'm Not a Woman Poet"

Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, tells how she became interested in Yiddish women poets through her studies with Malka Heifetz Tussman, who emphatically rejected such a label.

Anita Norich's Newly Translated A Jewish Refugee in New York

This week on The Shmooze we visit with Anita Norich to talk about the recently published A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadia Molodovsky, which she translated.

Nancy Sherman

Nancy Sherman, former Associate Director at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Anita Christensen on October 13, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

2010-10-13

Chantal Ringuet

Chantal Ringuet, author and translator, was interviewed by Carole Renard on December 17th, 2018, at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference, located in Boston, Massachusetts.

2018-12-17

Speaking Directly to the Bubbies: Transmission Between Jewish Lesbian Writers and Yiddish Poetesses

Zohar Weiman-Kelman--scholar of Queer Studies, Yiddish Studies, and Jewish literature--discusses how they found the intersections between Queer Studies and Yiddish Studies in the nuances of cultural transmission, encountering the role of lesbian Jewi...

Anita Norich

Anita Norich, professor of American-Jewish literature at the University of Michigan, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 18th, 2018 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, MA.

2018-12-18

Irving Joseph Massey

Irving Joseph Massey, son of Yiddish poet Ida Maze, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 13, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. This interview is conducted in both Yiddish and English.

2013-11-13

Anna Gonshor

Anna Fishman Gonshor, Faculty Lecturer of Yiddish Studies at McGill University and Montreal-based Yiddish activist, was interviewed by Sara Israel on December 13, 2011 at the Montreal Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Anna begins the...

2011-12-13

A Jewish Refugee in New York: Reading Resources

November 2019: Handpicked