- 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.
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- Chava Rosenfarb was one of the most important post-War Yiddish authors. Learn about her life and work and hear her tell her own story
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- Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes the reaction of her religious great-grandparents upon learning that their daughter, Chava Rosenfarb's mother, had become an atheist and a Bundist. She tells the story of Chava...
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- Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her mother's physical appearance and shares the fact that her mother always thought of herself as a tall woman despite being 5'5''.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes her mother's social presence, including her dislike of chitchat, her misunderstood quietness, and her ability to make people feel heard and appreciated.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- 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.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- 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.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, describes the experience and impact of translating her mother's works, including the fights that they would have about translation and the positive impact that it had on her image of...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- 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.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Surviviors, by Chava Rosenfarb, is the second selection in the 2017 Great Jewish Books Book Club. Here's a sampling of some thoughts about the book, from members taking part in the club's Facebook group.
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