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A Few of My Grandfather's Favorite Things
EX455_2327 David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, recounts his grandfather's love for cigars, cantorial music and schnapps.More from this narrator:Â David Berg
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The "Runaway": My Mother's Journey To America At Age Sixteen
EX450_3173 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, tells the story of his mother's journey to America at 16, and her first job: keeping the kerosene lamps on miners' helmets...
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All in the Same Economic Boat: Growing Up In Ethnically Diverse NY Public...
EX450_3180 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, remembers his experiences in the New York City public school system in the 1930s and 40s, and the ways the ethnic and racial...
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A Yiddishist From Birth
EX450_3176 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, describes the home he grew up in: how Yiddish was the language of the house, and his first language, and how his cousins...
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"It's Like Falling in Love Again:" The Beauty of Reading Yiddish Memoirs
EX508_2945 Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, gushes over the experience of reading Yiddish memoirs for his current project, explaining that the Yiddish "is as natural as a...
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Polonized Jews Are Not THE Story
EX508_2946 Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College reflects on his mentor, Antony Polonsky. Dynner argues that Polonsky's strong focus on Polonized Jews obscures the fact that...
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Offering Relief Through Yiddish After Hurricane Sandy
EX509_3076 Adi Mahalel, lecturer of Yiddish Studies at the University of Maryland, speaks about his experience volunteering as a Yiddish interpreter in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn following the...
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My Introduction to Communism
EX539_3337 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, recalls an episode from her childhood years in Odessa during the tumultuous period of...
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The Writer At Work: Sholem Aleichem's Habits
EX539_3352 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, shares her memories of her grandfather at work and describes how he used to write while...
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Motl, The Cantor's Son: A Childhood (Imaginary) Friend
EX539_3356 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes her favorite of her grandfather's characters, Motl, the Cantor's Son and the...
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Bel Kaufman's First Memories of New York and English
EX539_3357 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, shares her first impressions of New York as a young child. She discusses the process of...
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Advice for Serious Students of Yiddish
EX518_3224 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, offers some advice to students of Yiddish: don't stop there.More from this...
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Yiddish: A Logical Choice?
EX588_3654 Alana Fichman, Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student, discusses how the typical reaction to her learning Yiddish is skepticism and how this reveals a lot about the ideology influencing...
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Reflections on Language and (Jewish) Peoplehood
EX588_3655 Alana Fichman, Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student, talks about the significance of language in the development of group identities and how Jewish languages in particular reflect a long...
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They Spoke What I Swore was German: Growing Up in a Multilingual Home
EX589_3555 Michel Araten, banking/operations researcher by profession, talks about the different languages his parents spoke in the home where he grew up in French protectorate Casablanca, Morocco. He...
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