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Bente Kahan Sings the Yiddish Song that Reminds Her Most of her Father
EX408_3213 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, sings a Yiddish song that reminds her of her father, and explains what about the song speaks to her.
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Dorota Liliental Sings Oyfn Pripetshik
EX413_2718 Dorota Liliental, actress and great-granddaughter of the Jewish ethnographer Regina Liliental, sings an excerpt of Oyfn Pripetshik, a Yiddish song written by M.M. Warshawsky and published...
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“Very Delicate, Very Subtle”: On Discovering the Beauty of Yiddish Poetry and...
EX415_3138 Aleksandra 'Ola' Bilinska, musician, talks about a solo project she did for The Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw - also known as "Singer's Warsaw" - based on a collection of Yiddish...
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'It's Got a Certain Softness': Approaching Yiddish for the First Time
EX415_3139 Aleksandra 'Ola' Bilinska, musician, on how she perceives other languages' influences on Yiddish, and the experience of approaching Yiddish through song.
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'Cultivating the Memory': Preserving Jewish, Lithuanian, and Roma Culture in...
EX415_3140 Aleksandra 'Ola' Bilinska on The Borderland Foundation in Sejny, and its promotion of the Jewish, Lithuanian, and Roma (Gypsy) cultures historically local to Northeast Poland.
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'When You Try to Revive a Language, It's a Really Important Aspect of...
EX415_3141 Aleksandra 'Ola' Bilinska, musician, talks about the re-creation of Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Poland through the performance of Yiddish songs.
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'Objectively Wonderful': Yiddish Poetry & Songs
EX415_3142 Aleksandra 'Ola' Bilinska, musician, articulates how she sees Yiddish poetry and songs as "beautiful art", which should be cherished and brought to the people as such.
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"The Yeshiva? It Was A Shoe Factory”: Discovering Traces of Multicultural...
EX416_3022 Michał Moniuszko, a musician and teacher, talks about how he discovered the Jewish history of Sejny, Poland, through his involvement with the Borderland Foundation (Fundacja Pogranicza), a...
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“We Got Into A Friendship”: After Sixty Years, A Cantor Returns to His Native...
EX416_3024 Michał Moniuszko, a musician and teacher, talks about using personal accounts to teach the Jewish history of Sejny to local schoolchildren, through the life of cantor Max Furmansky, who...
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“Everything Started from That”: Finding Connection Between Rock and Klezmer...
EX416_3026 Michał Moniuszko, a musician and teacher, remembers his first impressions of klezmer music as a young Polish rock musician.
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“It Must Be Done”: The “Great Responsibility” of Educating Young People about...
EX416_3027 Michał Moniuszko, a musician and teacher, talks about his feeling of obligation and responsibility to teach younger generations the Jewish history of Sejny, Poland.
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"You Can't Understand the Music Without Yiddish"
EX418_3239 Raphael Roginski, a musician and activist, describes his musical education in the small rural town of Podkowa Lesna, and the importance of Yiddish in understanding Ashkenazi Jewish musical...
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Raphael Roginski on Countering the “Fetishization” of Jewish Culture and...
EX418_3265 Raphael Roginski, a musician and activist, talks about his issues with the contemporary Polish phenomenon of Jewish music festivals, where most performers are non-Jews.
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Raphael Roginski: Improv #1 in Sejny, Poland
EX418_3266 Raphael Roginski, a musician and activist, shares an improvised composition.
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Raphael Roginski: Improv #2 in Sejny, Poland
EX418_3268 Raphael Roginski, a musician and activist, shares an original composition.
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"Ethel Bergman, Where Are You?”: My Mother Was Known For Her Singing
EX422_3123 Sandra Rubin, a retired nonprofit administrator, talks about her parents' time at Camp Boiberik, where her mother's singing caught lots of attention.
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"The Entire Meeting Was in Yiddish!”: Show For Jerusalem 3000 at the...
EX422_3127 Sandra Rubin, a retired nonprofit administrator, remembers arranging a specific event while working with the Jerusalem Foundation, and a particular meeting, which, to her surprise, was...
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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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"Addicted to Yiddish" Through Songs
EX441_2696 Beatrice Garrard, summer 2013 Steiner student, explains how the Steiner Program left her feeling "addicted to Yiddish" and speaks about her favorite Yiddish songs.
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