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Jewish Museums in Paris and Odessa
EX304_1851 Sara Israel, former Yiddish Book Center fellow, compares the experience of visiting a museum in the Jewish quarter of Paris and visiting the Jewish museum in Odessa.More from this narrator:...
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My Grandfather's Story About Bedbugs During Shlikhes
EX348_1803 Psychiatrist Gregory Firman tells his grandfather's story of the call to midnight selichot prayers in his shtetl in Ukraine. When the town shamas comes to knock on the houses to wake the...
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Family Legend: My Grandfather Walked From Ukraine To Hamburg
EX348_1802 Psychiatrist Gregory Firman tells the story of his grandmother's trek across Europe on foot. She walked from Ukraine to Hamburg with her newborn baby to join Firman's grandfather in the...
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My Grandfather's Story About Bedbugs During Shlikhes
EX348_1803 Psychiatrist Gregory Firman tells his grandfather's story of the call to midnight selichot prayers in his shtetl in Ukraine. When the town shamas comes to knock on the houses to wake the...
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Kiev and the Statue of the (In)Famous Khmelnitsky]
EX502_2897 Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, recalls his father's story about leaving Kiev, and a particular statue of Khmelnytsky.
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“A Certain Caché”: Why My Family Identified As Austrian
EX440_2682 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, talks about identifying as Austrian as a child, despite where his family was in fact from.
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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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Leonard Nimoy Shares His Sense of Zaslav, His Parents’ Hometown
EX483_3501 Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, discusses his parents' experiences with antisemitism and violence in their...
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“Closing The Circle”: Leonard Nimoy On Meeting Nimoy Relatives in Zaslav
EX483_3509 Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, discusses his trip to Soviet Russia as part of a program with the World Wildlife...
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Mariampol, Mexico City, and Marriage
EX464_2811 David Epstein, a 2013 Yidish-Vokh participant, shares the story of how his father, from a shtetl in Ukraine, met his cosmopolitan mother, who hailed from the city of Bialystok, in Mexico...
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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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"Huge Black Iron Gate": A Childhood Memory of Odessa
EX539_3338 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes the heavy, iron gates at her childhood home in Odessa. She recounts visiting...
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"You Have To Be Hungry To Appreciate Food": Chocolate Arrives to Odessa in a...
EX539_3339 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, recalls the food shortages of her childhood in Soviet Ukraine and how her early...
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Memories of the Russian Revolution
EX539_3713 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes her childhood home in Odessa and recounts a gruesome shooting which occurred...
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Good, But Strong: Navigating Jewish-American Identity
EX532_3334 Max Kellerman, sportscaster and Yiddish enthusiast, talks about his identity as an American Jew and how it is rooted in American values of strength and individuality as well as Jewish...
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