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"Making That Bridge Through Life Rather Than Death": The Gwozdzdiec Synagogue...
EX382_2795 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, describes the trip she took to Poland with her nephew, to see Jewish Poland beyond the "charnel houses of Europe" as part of the Gwozdzdiec...
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The Kletskin Publishing House Was Downstairs: Harshav On His 1930s Childhood...
EX401_2385 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z”l - professor emeritus at Yale University - describes helping out in the print shop on the bottom floor of his apartment building when he was young.More from...
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Moyshe Kulbak Taught at My School
EX401_2384 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - remembers how writer Moyshe Kulbak would go to unusual lengths to inspire his students' writing.More from this...
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Memories of Chaim Grade, Avrom Sutzkever, and Itzik Manger
EX401_2386 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z”l - professor emeritus at Yale University - remembers how his father taught writers Chaim Grade and Avrom Sutzkever Jewish history - and recounts an infamous...
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The First “Yung Vilne”: Prof. Harshav Remembers Growing Up with the Weinreichs
EX401_2387 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z”l - professor emeritus at Yale University - remembers growing up alongside Gabi Weinreich. He tells how Gabi's father, linguist Max Weinreich, referred to...
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History of the Sofye Gurevich School in Vilna
EX401_2384 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - tells the history of Sofia Gurevich and the school she founded, where his mother worked.More from this narrator:...
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Prof. Benjamin Harshav Remembers Collecting Folklore in the Markets of 1930s...
EX401_2388 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - describes collecting folklore for a class by getting market vendors to curse him.
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How Our Vilna School Assignments were Accidentally Saved Through WWII by the...
EX401_2389 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - tells how he realized that the Germans gathered books from the school where his mother taught because a story he...
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Benjamin Harshav Remembers Collecting Folklore in the Markets of 1930s Vilna
EX401_2388 From our Wexler Oral History Project: a story from Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l, professor emeritus at Yale University, who passed away this week
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The Teacher Had a Whip: A Kheyder In Pre-WWII Wieluń, Poland
EX547_2577 Leon Madowitz, a retired medical doctor, describes his very traditional Jewish education in a kheyder.More from this narrator: Leon Madowitz
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Benjamin Harshav, z"l, Remembers Collecting Folklore in the Market in Vilna
EX401_2388 Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - describes collecting folklore for a class by getting market vendors to curse him.More from this narrator: Benjamin...
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Language, music, and literature in Theo Bikel's Vienna home
EX151_1447 Theodore (Theo) Bikel, z"l - actor, folk singer, and activist - describes the music and literature of the multilingual home in pre-war Vienna.More from this narrator: Theodore (Theo) Bikel
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The 2nd District: Theo Bikel Remembers Jewish Vienna Before World War Two
EX151_1450 Theodore (Theo) Bikel, z"l - singer, actor, and political activist - describes the Jewish district in Vienna, where he grew up before World War Two.More from this narrator: Theodore (Theo)...
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold and Jane Myers Sing "Ki V’Simcha"
EX448_3105 Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, sings "Ki V'Simcha" with cantor Jane Myers, who then reads the English translation.
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Remembers the Family’s “Concert” of Zmires on Friday...
EX448_3107 Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, remembers singing with his family as a child.
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