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Litvak & Varshe: Code-Switching Between Yiddish Accents As A Child
EX313_3134 Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, describes the Yiddish-speaking home she grew up in, and her parents' disparate accents, both of...
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A Post-WWII Tragedy: The Challenge To Find Good Yiddish Editors and Translators
EX313_3136 Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, talks about Yiddish-language writing and publishing in Montreal, post-World War Two.
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"If Not Higher:" Discovering Jewish Values Through Yiddish Literature
EX390_2185 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, speaks about I.L. Peretz's Yiddish story "If Not Higher" and discusses how it has inspired and informed her identity as...
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The Streets, People, and Smells of the Toronto Jewish Community
EX390_2187 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes the close-knit Jewish community of her childhood and spending time at Jewish businesses in Kensington Market...
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A Community Divided: Tensions Within Toronto's Jewish Community
EX390_2190 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes the tensions within the Jewish community of Toronto between established immigrants and war refugees. In...
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Yetsies Mitsrayim: My Childhood Home as a Meeting Place for Holocaust Surviv
EX390_2194 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes the community of immigrants and landsman to which her parents belonged. She speaks about the degree to which...
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"I Realized Everything I Needed Was There": Beginning Jewish Folklore In Her...
EX421_3187 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, explains the inspiration for her early PhD project where she collected...
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Ties That Bind: The Global Network of a Polish Shtetl's Descendants
EX390_2189 Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes her family's hometown of Chmelnik, Poland and the landsmenshaftn (communal organizations) and bonds which...
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Of Course The Great Yiddish Writer Avrom Sutzkever Stayed With Us!
EX314_2153 Liba Augenfeld - Vilna-native, former Jewish partisan and prominent Yiddish cultural activist after immigrating to Montreal - remembers how poet Avrom Sutzkever, whom she knew from their...
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Ida Maze: The "Den Mother" of Yiddish Montreal
EX500_3707 As the first film in our "Beyond the Books" series, this short documentary features the life and works of Yiddish poet Ida Maze, a poet who cultivated a community of Yiddish writers in...
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"Not the Hands of a Maid": How My Grandmother Ended Up in South Africa
EX423_3079 Zvi Jankelowitz, Director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, tells the story of how his grandmother was rebuffed at the Canadian border, so had to go to South Africa...
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An Unforgettable Journey: From South Africa to Brooklyn by Boat, 1936
EX423_3081 Zvi Jankelowitz, Director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, relates the story of his grandmother and mother's long, arduous journey by ship, from South Africa to...
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Vegetable Selling with Mary the Horse: My Zeyde
EX425_2671 Michael Yashinsky - stage director and Yiddish language student - describes his Zeyde Leyzer's produce peddling business, and his unfortunate equine injury.More from this narrator: Michael...
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Reconnecting Kaczerginski and Botwinik through A Reel-to-Reel Tape from Montréal
EX447_2573 Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, describes his work as a fellow with the Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library— and discusses some exciting...
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Fleeing the Vichy Government in Morocco to Manhattan: My Father, the...
EX589_3557 Michel Araten, banking/operations researcher by profession, relates how his father was advised by diplomat friends to leave Vichy-controlled Morocco, and used creative and persuasive means...
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