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Thumbnail image for Growing Up Jewish in Mexico
  • Chava Turniansky, professor emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recounts growing up in Mexico City and the role of Yiddish among the Jewish population there.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for Glikl Has a Story for Everything: Translator and Expert Prof. Chava Turniansky Reflects
  • Chava Turniansky, professor emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, discusses Glikl of Hameln, the narrator of the autobiography Turniansky translated, and discusses the wide array of Glikl's stories.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Eva Apfelbaum, artist and educator, remembers the fall of France and the start of the Vichy government before recollecting memories of being prepared to lose her mother and meeting Orthodox refugees.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for History Behind The Multilingual Holdings Of The Montreal Jewish Public Library
  • Eva Raby - former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - describes the many languages used at the library, which include Yiddish, English, French, and Russian.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Eva Apfelbaum, artist and educator, recalls the long journey from Germany to Switzerland to France that she took with her mother in 1933 when she was only five years old.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for An Unexpected Discovery: Reconnecting With Father During WWII
  • Eva Apfelbaum, artist and educator, shares how she and her mother unexpectedly reunited with her father and brother in the work camps of Vichy France during World War II.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for Storytelling at the Jewish Public Library
  • Eva Raby - former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - tells how she got interested in storytelling while working at the children's librarian at the Jewish Public Library.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for The Origins of the Yiddish Talking Books
  • Eva Raby - former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - recalls how the library's Yiddish Talking Books originated to help a reader who was losing her eyesight.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for Mother Was Worried About Something Called "The War": Trying To Comprehend WWII As A Small Child
  • Having left Germany for the safety of France, Eva Apfelbaum recalls 1939 as the year her brother and father were arrested and she was sent to live with other German refugees in the South of France.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
Thumbnail image for Glikl of Hameln: Prof. Chava Turniansky Explains the Importance of the 17th Century Memoir Written By A Woman in Yiddish
  • Chava Turniansky, professor emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describes the 17th century autobiography written by a woman in Yiddish, Glikl of Hameln, and why one should read it.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts

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