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Anti-Semitic Incident with a Polish Student
EX266_1037 Al Rosen, WWII veteran, says that although anti-Semitism was not a huge problem in his high school, there was one incident that scared him.More from this narrator: Ellsworth (Al) Rosen
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Cantor Father's Guggle Muggle Before Kol Nidre
EX266_1038 Al Rosen, WWII veteran, talks about how his father became a cantor and the special concoction he would drink before Kol Nidre to help his voice.More from this narrator: Ellsworth (Al) Rosen
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The Dybbuk: Performing Yiddish Theater in Austria
EX213_1293 Aron Gonshor - actor in the Montreal Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and surgeon - talks about the emotional experience of performing "The Dybbuk" in Vienna, Austria.More from this narrator:...
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Yiddish and the Question of Lingua Franca
EX213_1240 Aron Gonshor - actor in the Montreal Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and surgeon - discusses the historic place of Yiddish in Jewish populations and describes the similarities and the sense...
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A Brief History of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater
EX213_1238 Aron Gonshor - actor in the Montreal Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and surgeon - recounts the history of The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater, of which he has been a longtime member.More...
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Advice for Jewish Performers
EX213_1294 Aron Gonshor, member of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater, gives his advice for performers choosing to within the Jewish arts.More from this narrator: Aron Gonshor
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Working Lads Song
EX211_1789 Chana Gonshor sings a song that she learned in the Bund as a child in Poland that was written by her childhood friend Yosl Mlotek, later the director of the Workmen's Circle's Yiddish...
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Arrival in Halifax
EX211_1790 Chana Gonshor describes her first moments in Halifax and the first time her son ate a banana.More from this narrator: Chana Gonshor
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Children's Republic
EX211_1996 Chana Gonshor, born in 1919 in Warsaw, describes the Medem Sanitorium, a Bund-run educational and clinical facility for children and youth at risk for tuberculosis.More from this narrator:...
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Language Gives Us Roots: A Yiddish Teacher Explains "Why Use Yiddish?"
EX212_1218 Anna Fishman Gonshor, Faculty Lecturer of Yiddish Studies at McGill University and Montreal-based Yiddish activist, reflects on how language informs our sense of identity and quotes the...
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We Lost All Contact: The Fate of Relatives in Germany
EX224_2089 Arnold Friedmann - Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst - explains what happened to the the relatives that stayed in Germany after he and his immediate family fled...
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Popularity of Yiddish in Israel Today
EX222_1131 Israel Bartal - Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University - describes the popularity of Yiddish both linguistically and culturally within the current generation of Israelis.More from...
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Separating Jewish Culture from Victimization
EX175_1737 Amy Leos-Urbel - Director of Educational Programs at the Yiddish Book Center - shares her vision of separating Jewish culture from the idea that Jews are victims, a vision she instilled in...
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"He kept answering in Russian": Moishe Katz meeting Peretz
EX119_86 Lyber Katz - z"l, progressive activist, Yiddish translator and son of Moishe Katz - remembers his father's story of meeting Peretz and trying to initiate speaking Yiddish while Peretz...
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Teaching and Learning Yiddish
Learning a language is a big investment. There are many languages to choose from, too, even just among Jewish languages. So why learn Yiddish? Teachers, students, scholars, and performing artists...
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