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Moshe Shklar's Friendships With Famous Yiddish Writers

Moshe Shklar, Yiddish poet born in Poland, describes his friendships and relationships with a variety of Yiddish writers in Poland.

Samuel (Shmuel) Bak

Samuel (Shmuel) Bak, Jewish artist born in Vilna, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 3, 2014 in Weston, Massachusetts.

2014-12-03

Liba Augenfeld

Liba Augenfeld - Vilna native, former Jewish partisan and prominent Yiddish cultural activist after immigrating to Montreal - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 10, 2012, in Montreal, Canada.

2012-07-10

Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav

Benjamin Harshav, z"l, professor emeritus at Yale University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 18, 2013 in North Haven, Connecticut. This interview is entirely in Yiddish.

2013-03-18

Ken (Binyomen) Moss

Ken (Binyomen) Moss, Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 6, 2012 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. This inte...

2012-06-06

Heather Valencia

Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 7th, 2019 in Thornhill, Scotland.

2019-08-07

Marek Tuszewicki

Marek Tuszewicki, Yiddish teacher at Krakow JCC, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 6, 2013 at the Jewish Community Center in Krakow, Poland. This interview is entirely in Yiddish.

2013-05-06

Maia Evrona

Maia Evrona, poet and translator of Yiddish poetry, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on December 19, 2016 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, California.

2016-12-19

Baruch Shoob

Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on September 20, 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2015-09-20

Anna Rozenfeld

Anna Rozenfeld, a Yiddish artist and activist based in Poland, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 23, 2013 at KlezKanada in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada.

2013-08-23

"Grains of Wheat": Abigail Weaver on the Paper Brigade

Lisa Newman talks to Smith College senior Abigail Weaver about "Grains of Wheat," her play about the Jewish intellectuals, known as the Paper Brigade, who worked to hide stores of cultural materials from Nazi forces in the Vilna ghetto.

Zvi Mann

Zvi Mann, son of Yiddish writer Mendl Mann, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 18, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014-06-18

Yisroel Rudnitsky

Yisroel Rudnitsky, Yiddish editor, typesetter, and printer, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 22, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014-06-22

Fania Brantsovsky

Fania Brantsovsky, former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 27, 2012 at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania.

2012-07-27

Valery Dymshits

Valery Dymshits, researcher and lecturer at the Interdepartmental Center "Petersburg Judaica" at the European University at St. Petersburg, was interviewed by Tanya Panova on February 15, 2017, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2017-02-15

Miriam Hoffman

Miriam Hoffman, former DP camp resident, author, playwright, and lecturer, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 10th, 2020 in Coral Springs, Florida.

2020-02-10

Leo Melamed

Leo Melamed, child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was interviewed by Christa Whitney in Glencoe, Illinois on December 13, 2012. This interview contains some Yiddish.

2012-12-13

Barnett Zumoff

Dr. Barnett Zumoff - a medical doctor by profession and a Yiddish translator and activist, as well as President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 4, 2013 at his office at Beth Israel Hospi...

2013-12-04

Moshe Shklar

Moshe Shklar, Yiddish poet born in Poland, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on February 19, 2013 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

2013-02-19

Eva Raby

Eva Raby, former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 10, 2012 at the Montreal Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Canada.

2012-07-10