- Sara Kruzansky, teacher of Jewish history, recounts how her father, although already in the U.S., had the option to fight in the Russian Army during World War I. Father refused saying "I don't fight for the Tsar."
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- I teach Jewish literature to non-Jews. That statement may not seem very remarkable; after all, I also teach Victorian literature to non-Victorians and nineteenth-century literature to students born in the late twentieth century.
Part of Pakn Treger
- Annette Zakuta, daughter of Yiddish writer Y. Y. Segal, explains how her Jewish identity was "wrapped up" in the Yiddish language. She further expresses feeling troubled by how her parents spoke Yiddish, but did not pass the language on to her.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor in Yiddish at Lund University, speaks about the role that the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer played in nourishing his connection to Yiddish literature. Schwarz was shocked to find that the worlds opened up by I.B...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Finding Aid: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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- Is Isaac Bashevis Singer a Yiddish Writer? A Reappraisal
Part of Pakn Treger
- Itay Zutra, the I. L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow at the University of Manitoba, shares his surprise and amazement at the intimacies between Modern Hebrew and Yiddish, particularly as revealed in the works of great Israeli authors...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Relaunching Our Greatest Yiddish Writer
Part of Pakn Treger
- By Rokhl Korn, translated by Miriam Isaacs. Reflections on distance and home.
Part of Pakn Treger
- Isaac (Ying) Halpern, son of Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, describes the nature of his father's appearance, through both his own memory and his father's self-portaits. Drawing from the sternness represented in his father's self-portraits, Isaac...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
