- Caraid O'Brien—writer, performer, and director, including of Yiddish works—reflects on how she came to Yiddish through literature, and the parallels she immediately felt to the Irish culture she'd grown up with through her family.
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- Our lectures explore topics related to Jewish literature, history, and culture.
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- Jack Kugelmass, anthropologist and director of Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, explains why being able to read in Yiddish allows access to enter a new world of amazing literature.
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- Harriet Murav, translator of Yiddish literature, remembers her upbringing in a Yiddish speaking home in New Jersey, and tells a story about not knowing her father's English name.
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- Moshe Fiszman—z"l, Holocaust survivor from Radom, Poland—talks about reading secular literature while he was growing up and recites some Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz from memory.
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- Arnold Friedmann - German Jew and Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst - shares how his attitude toward Yiddish changed, how he developed a love for Yiddish literature, and his personal thoughts on the Yiddish language.
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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.
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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.
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- Ron Finegold - former employee of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - explains the idea behind recording audio book versions of all the classics of Yiddish literature. The Yiddish Book Center is currently digitizing these recordings.
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