- As journalists writing in the wartime Polish ghettos, Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz captured the anxiety and uncertainty of daily life for Jews with breathtaking immediacy.
Part of The Shmooze Podcast Series
- Lea Szlanger, a Yiddish actress born in Poland, describes how much she and other performers learned from working with the great Yiddish actor Joseph Buloff.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Jozef Hen, Polish Jewish writer, describes how after the war he found the tiles from the ruins of his house in Warsaw and what happened to them.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman, Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 10th, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2016-05-10
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Bertram Bandman, a retired professor of philosophy, discusses the philosophy of collaborationism, which he became aware of as a child living during the presidency of José P. Laurel in the Philippines.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- José Altshuler, Cuban engineer of Jewish origin, describes what he thinks about Jewish culture after being asked if Jewish people are generally more intelligent.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- José Altshuler, Cuban engineer of Jewish origin, discusses his Jewish family background and the difficulty of reading his aunt's diary that she wrote while in a concentration camp.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Bernard Witlieb tells his father's story about meeting I. L. Peretz at 10 years old, as part of a prize for translating Russian and Polish works in Yiddish.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Irving Joseph Massey, son of Yiddish poet Ida Maze, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 13, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. This interview is conducted in both Yiddish and English.
2013-11-13
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Robert Potash, historian, remembers the People's Relief Committee, the socialist relief organization his father worked for following the devastation of European Jews brought on by World War I.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
