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Personal Meaning of Yiddish today
Florence Schumacher explains the role Yiddish plays in her life today, and what she sees for the future of the language after what a "close call" before the recent Yiddish renaissance.
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A Crusade Against a Phoenix-Like Existence
Theodore Bikel explains what he means by a "phoenix-like existence" and explains why it is important to remember the past.
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Linking Yiddish to a Family Past
Natalie Bornstein connects her affinity towards Yiddish with her curiosity about her family's past.
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Different Relationships with Yiddish in Different Countries
EX226_1186 Jeffrey Veidlinger has lived, taught, and studied all over the world, and he shares what those experiences have taught him about the importance of Yiddish for people living in the United...
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Yiddish: As Great a Language as All the Major Languages
EX315_1833 Eva Raby - former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - compares the beauty of Yiddish and her mother's singing with the nostalgia and kitsch of Yiddish.
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Why You Won't Hear Me Singing About The Old Country: Lorin Sklamberg on The...
EX309_2459 Lorin Sklamberg, lead singer for The Klezmatics and YIVO sound archivist, explains the group's decision to avoid playing Jewish music which didn't reflect their reality as American Jews and...
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Nostalgia and Resentment: Fond and Not So Fond Memories of Poland
EX399_2216 Helene Shafran, born to Yiddish-speaking Polish immigrants, recalls how her parents had conflicting views of the lives they left behind in Poland.
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"Whatever Yiddish You Can Learn, Learn It"
EX355_2792 From our Wexler Oral History Project: Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, talks about the importance of students' learning Yiddish
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Yiddish is Not Dead, It's Taken On a New Form
EX446_2705 Joseph Heller, summer 2013 Steiner student, responds to the notion that Yiddish is dead by suggesting that programs like the Steiner Program help to create a generation for whom Yiddish is...
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"All That Remains is a Dream" - The Bittersweet Nostalgia of "Vu Iz Dos Gesele?"
EX446_2731 Joseph Heller, summer 2013 Steiner student, speaks about his favorite Yiddish song, "Vu Iz Dos Gesele?" ("Where Is The Little Street?"), and explains the connection he feels between his...
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I Feel Closer and Closer to my Family
EX471_2883 Danielle Winter, bibliographer and fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, speaks about the particular sense of connection she feels with Yiddish and German over Hebrew. The study of Yiddish...
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"Assimilated Enough to Not Be Threatened" by Fiddler on the Roof
EX360_2797 Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, speaks about the absence of Yiddish in 1960s Larchmont, New York, and how his family felt a sense of nostalgia...
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A Crusade Against a Phoenix-Like Existence
EX151_481 Theodore (Theo) Bikel, z"l, distinguished folk singer and actor, explains what he means by a "phoenix-like existence" and explains why it is important to remember the past.More from this...
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"We Had to Forge Our Link Ourselves": A New Generation of Yiddish Theatre
EX503_3056 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its...
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"Our Parents Were Galutim (From the Exile), and We Were Israelis!": Negative...
EX510_3077 Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, reflects upon the negative attitudes towards Eastern Europe ("galut," Exile) exhibited by her family and peers while...
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(Re)Interpreting the History of Yiddish in Israel: Theatre, Literature, and...
EX510_3146 Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, discusses her work from her book on the decline of the Yiddish press and the resurgence of a revived, transformed Yiddish...
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