- Thelma Oldak Finkler, Yiddish translator and English teacher who grew up in Mexico, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 28, 2015 in Huixquilucan, Mexico.
2015-10-28
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
באַנד: 5
Volume: 5
- Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library
- Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union
Part of Pages
- Jeremy Dauber on the great Sholem Aleichem, whose "short stories and novels took on the very countours of Jewish history"
Part of Pakn Treger
- Four Theses on Translating Yiddish Literature in the 21st Century
Part of Pakn Treger
- 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
- Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, reflects on the complexity of Eastern European Jewish life and the ways in which modern film and literature have failed to capture it.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Allen Lewis Rickman, producer, director, and performer of Yiddish theater, joins The Shmooze to talk about his work translating Yiddish for the stage and screen.
Part of The Shmooze Podcast Series
- Sholem Aleichem was the most popular Yiddish writer. His books were in seemingly every Jewish home—and many of them were collected by the Yiddish Book Center. Learn about our rich collection of materials by and about Sholem Aleichem
Part of Pages
- Hershl Hartman, native Yiddish speaker and educational director at the Sholem Community in California, shares some anecdotes about Yiddish theater in New York City.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
