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A De-Judaized Yiddish
Eugene Orenstein - distinguished professor emeritus of Yiddish and Modern Jewish History at McGill University in Montreal - discusses how his perspective changed on his New York Jewish education as he...
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The Bronx Love Story of Two Secular Yiddishists
Linda Gritz and Michael Katz, Yiddish activists, recall their unusual meeting and courtship at the Bronx High School of Science.
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Bronx Love Story of Secular Yiddishists
EX186_1751 Linda Gritz and Michael Katz, Yiddish activists, recall their unusual meeting and courtship at the Bronx High School of Science.
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Meeting the Gangster, My Husband-to-be
EX114_603 Lois Graber, proud grandmother of six, tells the humorous story of how she met her husband.
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"If You're Not Gonna Go to Shul, Go to School"
EX188_707 Michael Katz, activist and grandson of Yiddish journalist Moishe Katz, remembers his childhood in Bronx and being the only Jewish child at school on many Jewish holidays.
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Lost In Translation
EX114_624 Lois Graber - proud grandmother of six - tells funny stories about her Yiddish speaking in-laws, and words that were lost in translation. To learn more about...
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It Was the Most Important Decision of My Life
EX165_1727 Leo Summergrad - Yiddish speaker, educator, and WWII veteran - describes the politics and missions of organizations like the IWO shule he attended as a child. Leo then explains how signing...
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Growing Up During the McCarthy Era
EX227_1234 Sheila Horvitz remembers what life was like being a Jew with socialist leaning family members in New York during the 1950s.
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Politics at the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative
EX375_1958 Marvin Zuckerman, retired English and Yiddish professor, describes the political environment of the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, where he lived as a child.
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We Had World Literature in Yiddish in our Apartment
EX375_1957 Marvin Zuckerman, retired English and Yiddish professor, describes his pride in his parents, who were well read despite having little education, and describes the collection of Yiddish...
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A Coop in the Bronx
Eugene Orenstein explains that his parents heard about a new cooperative in the Bronx and were the twenty-seventh family to join.
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I Really Learned Yiddish Living on Bainbridge Ave. with The Gottesmans
EX223_2512 Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - tells how he really mastered Yiddish while living with the Gottesman family on Bainbridge...
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"I Can't Tell You How Many Apartments in the Bronx I Visited": Collecting a...
EX421_3188 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, recalls her friendship with folklorist Wolf Yunin -- and how he helped...
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Life in Bathgate Ave. Bronx Neighborhood During the Depression
EX444_2722 Rita Licht Rosenthal, a retired social worker, describes in detail the Bathgate Ave. Bronx neighborhood where she lived as a child in the Depression-era.More from this narrator: Rita Licht...
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Mordkhe Schaechter's Pedagogy, Knowledge, and House
EX357_2835 Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - remembers studying Yiddish with linguist Mordkhe Schaechter and describes Schaechter's home and collection of note...
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