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A Crusade Against a Phoenix-Like Existence
EX151_481 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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A Family History of High European Culture
EX74_612 David Mazower describes his family's history and its connection to high European culture. He focuses on his great-grandfather, the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, who was friends with prominent...
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Love of the language
EX193_536 Sruli Dresdner discusses the connection between Klezmer music and Yiddish.
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Sholom Aleichem's Tevye
EX151_478 Theodore Bikel, who played Tevye In Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, discusses the beauty of Sholom Aleichem's original stories about Tevye.
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Telling secrets in front of the kids
EX193_537 Sruli Dresdner talks about how he and his wife do the same thing to their kids that their parents did to them.
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The Intergenerational Connections of Klezmer
EX162_578 Musician Michael Winograd describes the way Klezmer music brings together people of different ages, and connects the generations.
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Teaching is still learning
EX162_551 Michael Winograd describes how he went from being a student to being a teacher of music. He recalls first attending KlezKanada and then eventually becoming one of the teachers.
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Playing Jewish Music in Poland
EX155_476 Musician Assaf Talmudi describes his mixed emotions about playing at a huge Jewish music festival in Krakow.
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The Roughness of Yiddish
EX157_472 Christian Dawid explains that he likes Yiddish for its "roughness" and the ways in which it can be both beautiful and obscene.
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Four Generations of Yiddish Activism
EX188_706 Michael Katz, activist and grandson of Yiddish journalist Moishe Katz, outlines the history of his family and explains what it means to him to be both secular and active in the Jewish...
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The Legacy and Future of Kinderland
EX188_703 Michael Katz, activist and grandson of Yiddish journalist Moishe Katz, talks about his involvement with the progressive Jewish summer camp, Camp Kinderland.
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"Fifteen years of recorded programs of Jewish interest"
EX214_565 Ron Finegold - former employee of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - explains the project of the Montreal Jewish Public Library (where he worked for years) to record public programs of...
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"Let's do our own little cottage industry of taping all the Yiddish classics"
EX214_567 Ron Finegold, former employee of the Montreal Jewish Public Library, explains the idea behind recording audio book versions of all the classics of Yiddish literature. The Yiddish Book Center...
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A Freedom to Experiment
EX132_607 David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, discusses the legacy of an unpretentious appreciation and commitment to the arts that he learned from several Jewish figures in his life.
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Exploring Romania with My Father
EX132_611 David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, describes a trip to Romania he took with his father.
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