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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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"Shabbes for Me Was A Song From Friday Night Until The End": Shabbes in 1930s...
EX434_2051 Martin Schiller, Polish-born child survivor of the Holocaust, remembers how his family celebrated shabbes in Tarnobrzeg, Poland.Martin Schiller
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“Finding Space for Another Language in Polish Monoculture”: Using Yiddish in...
EX418_3240 Raphael Roginski, a musician and activist, talks about his decision to title all of his albums in Yiddish as a means of subverting the cultural homogeneity of contemporary Poland. Raphael...
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Jewish Music from Freylekhs (frielachs) to Don Giovanni
EX514_2535 Harold Edelstein, retired chemist, reflects on the breadth of Jewish (and Jewish-themed) music. Harold Edelstein
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'How Big Government Rescued Yiddish Culture": How the NEH Saved YIVO
EX369_2405 Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, speaks to the role of the National Endowment for the Humanities funding in maintaining and...
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The Language of Fighters
EX373_2958 Hershl Hartman, native Yiddish speaker and educational director at the Sholem Community in California, speaks about the historically active role of Yiddish in fighting oppression. Hershl...
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"Off-Broadway," A Phrase Courtesy of the Yiddish Theater
EX373_2955 Hershl Hartman, native Yiddish speaker and educational director at the Sholem Community in California, shares some anecdotes about Yiddish theater in New York City. Hershl Hartman
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Teaching Yiddish Appreciation Through Music
EX373_2954 Hershl Hartman, native Yiddish speaker and educational director at the Sholem Community in California, shares his experience and opinions on Yiddish education given time limitations. Hershl...
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Working From Place of Minority: Reflections on Queers in the Klezmer Revival
EX382_2787 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, reflects on the first days of the klezmer revival of the 1970s, and the intersection of Jewish and LGBTQ identities. Helena Lipstadt
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Discovering the Music of Sidor Belarsky
EX376_1927 Anthony Russell, singer, recounts how he discovered the music of Sidor Belarsky - a fellow bass singer with a background in opera - while watching a film.Anthony Russell
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Listening to Yiddish Music while Training for Ultra-Marathons
EX137_554 Charles Corfield, ultra-marathon runner and tech entrepreneur, describes how he discovers new Yiddish music to listen to on his runs. Charles Corfield
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Remembering WEVD: The Yiddish Radio
EX497_2855 Barbara Kupfer Murray, a child of Holocaust survivors and a docent at a Holocaust memorial center, remembers Yiddish radio and music in her childhood home: WEVD and Moishe Oisher were...
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“Little Lights”: A Yiddish Khanike (Channukah) Song
EX499_2941 Alvin Becker, a retired veterinarian, shares his favourite Yiddish song: "Oy, ir kleyne likhtelekh." More from this narrator: Alvin Becker
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The Rabbi’s 'Heart Attack': A Secular Jew’s Synagogue Faux Pas
EX499_2937 Alvin Becker, a retired veterinarian, remembers the Yiddish and Hebrew-language choirs he sang in as a child, and the time he almost ruined the High Holy Day service. More from this...
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Lipschtick's Traveling Rabbi Shpiel
EX477_2871 Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about her Borscht Belt-influenced queer theater troupe, Lipschtick. She remembers how their performance in a...
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Any Jew That's Looking For Their History Will Find Yiddish
EX477_2876 Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about the current place of Yiddish in academia, Hasidic communities, and enthusiastic Jewish youth. She discusses...
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Gaining Strength Through the Letters: Personal Impact of Yiddish
EX524_3161 Joan Rudd, sculptor and Yiddish activist, recalls a powerful memory of hearing her religious school music teacher, musicologist A.W. Binder, sing the Yiddish song, "Oyfn Pripetshik," and...
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The Joy of [Being Better Than Your Husband At] Yiddish
EX524_3163 Joan Rudd, sculptor and Yiddish activist, speaks about the particular delight she feels at being able to out-Yiddish her college professor husband, who proudly displays his childhood...
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Seattle's Yiddish Bus Shelter Murals
EX524_3165 Joan Rudd, sculptor and Yiddish activist, speaks about and shares some footage from her METRO bus shelter mural program, a project that, from 1994-2003, sought to infuse Jewish and Yiddish...
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Shoyn Nishto Keyn Nekhtn (Yesterday Is Gone) - Sung by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold
EX448_3090 Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, shares a Yiddish song, "Shoyn Nishto Keyn Nekhtn."
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