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Thumbnail image for Learning Yiddish through Classes, Conversation, and Yidish-vokh
  • Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss, Yiddishist and Russian Literature professor, describes how she learned to speak Yiddish: through taking classes, working for a Yiddish speaker, and attending to Yidish-vokh (Yiddish Week).
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Professor Chava Turniansky, Professor Emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 17, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel.
2014-06-17
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
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  • Zvi Jankelowitz, director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, discusses the world of South African Yiddish literature that he has discovered since taking his current position.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Ber Kotlerman, native Yiddish speaker from Birobidzhan and professor of Yiddish language and literature at Bar-Ilan University, speaks about the future of the Yiddish language in the academic and Haredi (ultra-orthodox) worlds.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • The Yiddish Book Center's podcasts include conversations with Jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to Yiddish language, literature, and culture.
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  • Talia Margolis Chomstein, Yiddish activist based in Mexico City, describes how she discovered Yiddish Mexican literature and how it inspired her to be more involved in the Mexican Jewish community through Yiddish.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Embark on a journey around the world, into the future and the past, "from eternity to eternity," with these newly translated treasures of Yiddish literature.
Part of Pakn Treger
Thumbnail image for Bracha Weingrod on the Yiddish Book Center and the Need for Yiddish Translation
  • Bracha Weingrod, translator of Dos Familie Kohkbukh, praises the Yiddish Book Center's work and lays out her vision of the "army of translators" needed to make Yiddish literature accessible to today's Jews.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Marc Caplan - Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University - explains how Yiddish is on the periphery of the academic world - and how that location can be beneficial.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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  • Anne Eakin Moss - Yiddishist and Russian Literature Professor - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 18, 2013 at Yidish-Vokh in Reisterstown, Maryland. This interview was conducted entirely in Yiddish.
2013-08-18
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project

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