- A selection of Purim songs and stories from our collection
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- Harriet Bonfeld, educator and daughter of Yiddish poet and journalist Leon Feinberg, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 29, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Harriet speaks briefly of her father's background...
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- Madeleine (Mindl) is the director of translation and collections initiatives at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Mindl about her choices.
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Part of Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library
- Avi Hoffman, actor, reflects on his role models who became his colleagues in Yiddish theatre. He particularly remembers going to see his very first Broadway play as a young boy and the thrill of getting to meet Mike Burstyn, one of his acting heroes.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Two sketches by Yiddish novelist and prose writer Froyim Kaganovski, one of interwar Poland’s most prominent writers.
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- Robert Epstein, educator, tells a story about how he convinced Yiddish speakers to think he was fluent by memorizing a poem.
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- The "women's bible" and other versions of the Yiddish Torah
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- 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.
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- Motl Didner, associate artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its native participants: on the one hand, his actors lack the...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
