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“If a Catholic, Could a Jew be far Behind?”: On John F. Kennedy’s Election

EX522_2628 Ruth Smith, docent at the Yiddish Book Center, describes her thoughts during John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Presidential Election, and her grandparents' passion for political engagement.More...

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'Oyf eygene drokhim' (On My Own Narrow Path): Solomon Simon's Spiritual...

EX487_2994 David Simon, son of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, reads an unpublished, translated excerpt from his father's spiritual autobiography, "Oyf eygene drokhim". More from...

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A “Way of Continuing As Secular Jews”: Why Solomon Simon Wrote Yiddish...

EX487_2995 David Simon, son of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, on the reason his father wrote stories for children in Yiddish. More from this narrator: David Simon

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No Butter with Meat, But Bacon in a Sandwich: The Paradox of Solomon Simon's...

EX487_3000 David Simon, son of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, grew up eating 'kosher-style' meals at home, but recalls a difference in his father's attitude when eating out in the...

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A Gliklekher Mentsh (A Lucky Man)

EX443_2539 Israel Milkow, a retired IT professional, recounts his observations of the differences in working culture between the Old World and the New, and talks about being "a gliklekher mentsh"- a...

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Working With Dina Abramowicz

EX369_2407 Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, speaks about his time working with Dina Abramowicz, who served as head librarian at YIVO...

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A Shtetl in New York

EX137_582 Charles Corfield compares assimilation of Yiddish speaking Jews in New York City in America versus London and Manchester in England. More from this narrator: Charles Corfield

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Our Father Solomon Simon’s Search for a Secular Kehile (Jewish Community)...

EX620_3524 David Simon and Miriam Forman, son and daughter of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, discuss their father's disappointment with secular Judaism and its failure to build...

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Why My Father Was Wrong About the Future of Yiddish

EX496_3569 Joe Esselin, playwright and son of Yiddish writer Alter Esselin, reads a translation of one of his father's poems and explains why he disagrees with the poem's pessimistic view of the...

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“The Heymishness of It”: Yiddish as the Language of Emotional Home

EX486_2980 Miriam Forman, daughter of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, describes the place Yiddish holds in her life. More from this narrator: Miriam Forman

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In der gas? Nisht Yidish! (No Yiddish in the Street!)

EX497_2856 Barbara Kupfer Murray, a child of Holocaust survivors and a docent at a Holocaust memorial center, remembers the day she refused to speak Yiddish in public. More from this narrator: Barbara...

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We Can't Keep This Name, We Have to be Americans

EX497_2851 Barbara Kupfer Murray, a child of Holocaust survivors and a docent at a Holocaust memorial center, talks about having to change her name in response to pressure to assimilate. More from...

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What Yiddish and Cherokee Have in Common: Reflecting on Endangered Languages

EX481_3474 Mark Wolraich, pediatrician, speaks to the importance of the written alphabet to preserving languages in general, and discusses the specific examples of Yiddish and the Cherokee language....

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The Death and Resurrection of Yiddish

EX439_2559 Selma Gordon, a retired school aide, talks about the contemporary resurgence of interest in spoken Yiddish, and her regrets about not teaching her own children to speak it.More from this...

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Lipschtick's Traveling Rabbi Shpiel

EX477_2871 Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about her Borscht Belt-influenced queer theater troupe, Lipschtick. She remembers how their performance in a...

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"The Worst Christmas Present"

EX440_2690 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, remembers desperately wanting a Christmas present as a child, and the one year that his wish was granted.

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Yiddish Today

EX394_2893 Shulamis Levin Friedman, z"l, Yiddish educator, reflects on the state of the Yiddish language today.

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Dluzhnowsky’s Attitude toward America

EX426_2655 Henry Dunow, the son of Yiddish writer Moyshe Dluzhnowsky, talks about his father's experience of America and American culture and his issues of identity.

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Both “Fiercely Proud” and “Distinctly Embarrassed”: To Have a Yiddish Writer...

EX426_2657 Henry Dunow, the son of Yiddish writer Moyshe Dluzhnowsky, talks about the tension his parents struggled with between retaining a connection to Yiddish culture and assimilation, and its...

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Menachem Mendel Lefin, a Yiddishist Maskil in Ukraine

EX360_2801 Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, speaks about his current interest in Menachem Mendel Lefin, a man who felt no contradiction between his...

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