- Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - describes how Yiddish writers would visit his family home in Chicago and remembers reciting on of Avrom Sutzkever's poems for the poet.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 31, 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania. This interview is entirely in Yiddish. Shimon Alperovitch was born in Vilna (Vilnius) in 1928,...
2012-07-31
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- Rivka Augenfeld
- Liba Augenfeld
- Seymour Mayne
- Rivka Augenfeld
- Liba Augenfeld
- Seymour Mayne
March 20, 1983
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library
April 13, 1975
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library
May 16, 1991
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- The Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library contains lectures by and interviews with Yiddish writers, recorded at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal between 1953 and 2005.
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- The Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library includes more than 11,000 Yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge.
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- The Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books is a collection of Yiddish books and short stories read aloud by native speakers, recorded in the 1980s and ’90s at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal.
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- It's a question we're asked a lot: why is the klor vays tsigele—the small white goat—the symbol of the Yiddish Book Center?
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