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Avi Hoffman, actor, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 12, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida. He grew up in the Bronx, part of a group of Yiddishist families who raised their children surrounded by Yiddish language and culture. His father...

2013-03-12

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project

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

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project

Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - reflects on the numerous Yiddishists who did not pass Yiddish on to their children.

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts

Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, reflects on her parents' role as partisans during World War Two, and the way governments today approach those with similar backgrounds.

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts

Marc Caplan - Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University - describes two modern settings of Yiddish: Haredish communities and academia. He uses poet Avrom Sutzkever's analogy of an aquarium to describe the...

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts

March 01, 1994

Part of Yiddish Book Center Recorded Programs

March 01, 1994

Part of Yiddish Book Center Recorded Programs

Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—explains why he does not subscribe to the "culture war" between Yiddish and Hebrew, arguing that speakers of both...

Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts