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Anna Shternshis

Anna Shternshis, Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on December 20, 2016 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, California. Anna was born in Moscow in what was then...

2016-12-20

Uwe von Seltmann

Uwe von Seltmann, German author and journalist, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on January 3, 2016 in Krakow, Poland. As his family was loathe to discuss such things, it took a while for Uwe to figure out that his grandfather served in the SS i...

2016-01-03

Saul Rubinek

Saul Rubinek, actor, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 29, 2017 in Hollywood, California. His father's family were Hasidim in Lodz; he rejected their traditional ways and became an actor. His mother's more secular family owned a flour m...

2017-11-29

Hilary Salk

Hilary Salk, activist and author, was interviewed by Jayne Pearl on October 10, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hilary was born in 1942, just days after her maternal grandfather died. Because her father Aaron Peter Ross, ...

2011-10-10

Eli Kwartler

Eli Kwartler, Jewish Community of Amherst co-president, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 4, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Eli believes his father emigrated from Galicia around 1920, while his mother was born i...

2012-04-04

Steven ‘Shmuel’ Spielberg’s epic contribution to Yiddish culture

Gloria Lieberman and Steven Holm

Bertha Kling’s Jewish Bronx Neighborhood, with David Mazower and Dr. Steven Payne

WORKSHOP | New Solo Yiddish Dances, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody | Saturday, July 9, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT

WORKSHOP | Go Figure: Dances for Partners and Groups, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody | Friday, July 8, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT

The Universality of Fiddler on the Roof and Its Revolutionary Impact on Broadway

Marc Aronson, son of Yiddish theater set designers Boris and Lisa Aronson, discusses his reaction to Fiddler on the Roof's success, its influence on Broadway, and its universal messages about tradition, modernity, and identity.

Thelma Oldak Finkler

Thelma Oldak Finkler, Yiddish translator and English teacher who grew up in Mexico, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 28, 2015 in Huixquilucan, Mexico. Thelma's father's family came from Poland and her mother's from Russia. She tells a st...

2015-10-28

Beyond Anatevka: The Challenges of Documenting Yiddish Life without Yiddish

Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, reflects on the complexity of Eastern European Jewish life and the ways in which modern film and literature have failed to capture it.

"Off-Broadway," A Phrase Courtesy of the Yiddish Theater

Hershl Hartman, native Yiddish speaker and educational director at the Sholem Community in California, shares some anecdotes about Yiddish theater in New York City.

Annotated Guide to Sholem Aleichem

Four Theses on Translating Yiddish Literature in the 21st Century