Part of Yiddish Book Center's Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books
- I don’t remember what year I met Zishe Landau. It is also unclear to me whether it was late in autumn or early in spring.
Part of Pakn Treger
- Joseph Opatoshu's take on the tormented personal life of a young Hebrew teacher in New York. Translated by Shulamith Berger.
Part of Pages
- Nina Dabek, filmmaker and Yiddishist, recounts her experience of coming out to her grandmother and her grandmother's surprising explanation follow her statement of "I don't like it, but I completely understand it."
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- 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
- Jozef Hen, Polish Jewish writer, describes his first conversation with Igor Newerly (Jerzy Abramow). Teenage Jozef Hen submitted his short story about tennis to a contest in a children's newspaper called "Maly Przeglad [The Little Review]".
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman – Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman – describers her father, Yiddish writer and activist, Joseph Kligman. She talks about his physical appearances, habits and his well-dressed style.
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
