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Memory of Three Lake Victoria Flamingos

To a Friend

My Mailman

Am I Seeing, from a Speeding Train...

An Answer to a Letter

No sun, no rays

"You Have Not Betrayed Me Since the Day We Met" and "You Olive Tree in the Night"

Working in An Aquarium: Modern Yiddish Culture in the Academy

Marc Caplan - Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University - describes two modern settings of Yiddish: Haredish communities and academia. He uses poet Avrom Sutzkever's analogy of an aquarium to describe the role...

Justin Cammy on Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg

Justin Cammy visited with The Shmooze to talk about his newly published translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg.

"I Asked Permission to Take a Piece of Grass”: Visiting Ponar

Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, describes his emotionally harrowing trip to Ponar, the site of a mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. During the trip, he remembered Avrom Sutzkever's poem, “A Blade of Grass from Ponar”.

Ed Colker

Ed Colker, artist, designer, and teacher, was interviewed by Nina Pick on June 26, 2017 in Mt. Kisco, New York. Ed's father, mother, and grandmother emigrated to the United States from Ukraine and eventually settled in North Philadelphia. His father...

2017-06-26

Learning Yiddish to Sing It

Sara Klompus, singer and Yiddish enthusiast, contemplates her relationship to the songs she sings, and how she's committed to understanding them with the help of other Yiddish speakers and self-discovery throughout her career as a Yiddish singer. In ...

Christa Whitney

Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, was interviewed by Lesley Yalen on October 12, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Christa grew up in a small town outside of San Francisco. ...

2010-10-12

Learning Yiddish Folk Songs From Jewish Partisans

RIta Katz, Holocaust survivor born in Smorgon, Belarus, explains how Jewish partisans including Avrom Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski taught her Yiddish folk songs, and shares part of one she remembers.

Grand Central for Holocaust Survivors in Brooklyn

Elliott (Elye) Palevsky – former CEO of River Garden senior services and child of Yiddish-speaking former partisan fighters – describes his childhood home. His small Brooklyn apartment became a center for Yiddish life, hosting meetings and even Avrom...

A Celebration of Avrom Sutzkever's Yiddish Poetry

Miriam Isaacs

Miriam Isaacs, linguist and professor of Yiddish, was interviewed by Pauline Katz on December 26, 2010 at KlezKamp in the Catskills Mountains of New York State. Dr. Isaacs begins the interview discussing her family background. Her mother was from th...

2010-12-26