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01:05:15
Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson
59:26
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Spoznik
01:49
My First Yiddish Course at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
03:42
A Lacuna Unearthed: Yiddish in Winnipeg
02:20
Training Grounds: Translating Yiddish as Part of My Work at the New York Public Library
03:54
Discovering Shira Gorshman's Writing
04:32
Yiddish and Jewish Culture in Birobidzhan in the 1990s
02:26
A Birobidzhaner on Coming To Appreciate His Jewish Name
03:00
Birobidzhan 1948 to 1990
01:46
“What Better Way Is There to Keep Learning than to Teach?”: Reflecting on My Love for Teaching
03:38
Memories of SKIF and the Bundist Youth Movement in Melbourne
02:45
Surrounded By Books: Inheriting a Love of Culture from My Family
02:43
"I Learned the Letters as if They Were Chocolates": My Uncle Taught Me the Alef-beys
02:04
"I Think It Is Healthier to Know and to Hear”: Hearing Stories of War Growing Up
02:07
Traditional Jewish Aspects of My Secular Jewish Childhood Home
04:55
The Birth of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
07:56
She Created A Masterpiece: Learning That Yiddish Is Contemporary
09:36
How American Jews Grew To Hate Yiddish
04:42
"An Unconscious Dismissal": I Realized That Yiddish Was Seen As Shameful
05:04
Growing Up In A Fertile Cultural Life: Aaron Paley on the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center
03:22
A Wandering Soyfer (Scribe) Finds Work: My Uncle Harold Reinhart and the Holocaust Torah Project
03:31
The Hazanim (Cantors) I Admire: What it Takes to Be a Hazan
04:16
Gene Wilder and The Frisco Kid: On Set with Gene and Leo Fuchs
03:36
Life on the Ship: Being Jewish in the Navy in the 1940s
03:27
"How West Met East": The Story of How My Parents Met
03:26
A Tale of Immigration: Why We Spell Our Name "Cohon"
01:11:04
Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture | The Yiddish Book Center at 45, with Aaron Lansky
55:34
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation, with Kenneth Turan
02:01
The First Years of the Peretz Yiddish School in Calgary
01:45
Blume Lempel, A New Favorite Yiddish Writer
01:52
Who Was Chaim Zhitlowsky?
02:02
Speaking to Chaim Zhitlowsky in mitn midbar (In the Middle of the Desert)
05:56
Summers with My Uncle in Parkland, Alberta
05:14
Who Was Rokhl Korn?
01:51
Challenges of Translating Der Nister
02:53
"The Part of My Life in Yiddish that Is Most Memorable Was Here in Vancouver"
01:21
Cultural Challenges of Yiddish Translation
02:59
Extended Family Shared Our Apartment in Kaunas After the War
01:57
Jewish Life in Post-WWII Soviet Kaunas
01:25
Multilingualism in Post-WWII Kaunas
02:46
Connecting to Roots and Learning from Jewish History
01:43
Yiddish Language Students of Today
01:34
Anything You Can Think of Can Be Found in the Old Yiddish Newspapers
03:56
“Forget about Your Old Language and Country and Learn Hebrew”: My First Impressions of Israel
03:43
"It Was Simply the Language of our Life": The Role of Yiddish in My Childhood
01:46
Jewish Foods in My Childhood Home in Soviet Lithuania
03:37
Growing up in the Wake of the Holocaust
56:57
The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot
53:23
Litvaks in Love, a conversation with Professor David G. Roskies
59:35
Hollywood’s Unofficial Film Corps with Michael Berkowitz
58:26
Yidish in ale lender: Yiddish around the World, with Christa P. Whitney
51:25
Translator Talk: A Conversation with Professor Samuel Kassow
03:44
Contending With The Visa System To Leave Europe Before World War II
01:01
Getting My Mother, Yiddish Writer Blume Lempel's Work Published
02:22
How the Murder of Yiddish Writer Blume Lempel's Brother Inspired Her Writing
02:42
Blume Lempel And Her Husband, Lempel, In Paris in the 1930s
01:59
"It's Drifting Back And Forth": Blume Lempel's Son on Her Unique Writing Style
01:15
Memories of Blume Lempel At Her Writing Table
02:47
Blume Lempel In Her Long Beach, NY Home: Gardening, Feeding Cats, and Writing
01:28
"Some Jews Did Forgive God, Others Never Did": Blume Lempel's Relationship To Religion