Ron Finegold, audio recording engineer and curator of notable recordings at Montreal's Jewish Public Library, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 13, 2011 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Quebec. Ron's father's side of the family came to Montreal as a group through the Jewish Colonization Program in South America. Ron's mother was born in 1896, and lived in Płoskirów, now known as Khmelnytskyi, in modern-day Ukraine, from 1914-1921. Ron's mother recounted the events...
Topics: Advice, Family history and stories re. ancestors, Childhood, Jewish Identity, Yiddish learning,...
Frances Morrill Schlitt is a retired social worker originally from Auburn, Maine. She is the mother of a 2010-2011 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, David Schlitt. Frances' mother was an immigrant to the United States from Ponovitch, Lithuania, while her father came from outside Ponovitch. They met and married in the United States. Frances remembers thinking her mother was illiterate, but after she died Frances realized she could read and write (in addition to speak, of course) Yiddish. Frances also...
Topics: Jewish Immigrants, Jewish Day School, Jewish Calendar, Lithuania, Ponovitch, Jewish Ritual,...
Adina Gordon was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 4, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Adina Gordon Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Karmazin Recording Studio, Yiddish Book Center, November 4, 2011. Video recording,...
Topics: Advice, Family history, stories about ancestors, Childhood, Jewish Identity, Yiddish language,...
Micha Eisenstorg, born and raised in Brussels, speaks about Jewish experiences in Belgium during World War II. He reflects on the experiences his own family had during the Nazi Occupation and the devastating aftermath, also sharing stories of Jewish resistance and the trial of a chief SS officer in Belgium. He later discusses his time in Israel, his involvement with Jewish organizations and movements, and the common memories he shares with his wife. To cite this interview: Micha Eisenstorg Oral...
Topics: Belgium, Brussels, World War II, Holocaust, German Invasion of Belgium, Nazis, Jewish Deportation,...
Professor Israel Bartal was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 19, 2011 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Washington, D.C. Professor Israel Bartal's interview begins with a detailed description of his lineage, including the story of his family's arrival in Palestine from small, Galician shtetls in southeastern Poland (now western Ukraine). Bartal dives deeply into his childhood, providing an elaborately detailed description of his life growing up in a Yiddish-speaking...
Topics: Advice, Family history and stories re. ancestors, Family history, stories about ancestors,...
Penina Glazer, long-time board member at the Yiddish Book Center and professor emerita of History at Hampshire College, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 16, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Penina begins by speaking about her family's life in Eastern Europe and their journey to the United States. Her mother, from Belarus, was the daughter of a shoykhet (kosher butcher). Penina tells the story of how her grandfather became a shoykhet by convincing the rabbonim...
Topics: Brooklyn, Zionism, 1930s, Depression, Aliyah, Farms, Kibbutz, Co-op, New Jersey, New Deal,...
Miriam Dashkin Beckerman, award-winning Yiddish literary translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 18th, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Miriam Dashkin Beckerman Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney , Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, Toronto, Ontario, Canada , July 18, 2016....
Topics: Advice, Childhood, Jewish Identity, Yiddish language, Yiddish speaker, Immigration, Migration,...
Jack Wynberg was interviewed by Ze'ev Duckworth on May 21, 2015 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: J ack Wynberg Oral History Interview, interviewed by Ze'ev Duckworth, Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, Karmazin Recordning Studio, Yiddish Book Center, May 21 2015....
Topics: Favorite Yiddish word, Yiddish words, Netherlands, Holland, hidden children, farming, farm, China,...
From the collections of the Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive. Solidarity Vol:07 #02 For Workers' Power Published Jun 1972. Published by Solidarity. Magazine/Journal/Paper/etc Section Public Archive S English Originally at http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/PAR0210.pdf
Topics: workers, kibbutz, reich, industrial, kibbutzim, union, solidarity, revolutionary, rank, communal,...
Phyllis’ family emigrated from Russia and Poland in the 1880s to the large Jewish community of Chelsea, MA near Boston. Her parents were not very religious but honored the holidays by getting the family together for Chanukah and Passover. They were both active in the Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, originally organized to help the Italian, Jewish and Polish women immigrants working the NYC sweatshops. Growing up in a home where her mother played violin and her father trumpet, Phyllis began...
Topics: Vermont, Jewish women, immigration, musician, kibbutz
Adrienne Mayer, Jewish woman who grew up in South Africa and moved to Israel before settling in Framingham, MA, was interviewed by Zeev Duckworth on November 16th, 2014 at the Yiddish Book Center. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Centerâs Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Adrienne Mayer Oral History Interview, interviewed by Zeev Duckworth, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Karmazin Recording Studio, Yiddish Book Center,...
Topics: Childhood, Jewish Identity, Immigration, Migration, Hebrew, Family history, stories about...
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Analysis about the tale Efraim goes back to alfafa by S. Izehar.
Topics: sionism, sacrifice, kibbutz
Haim is an eloquent, sharp man, who in his youth was involved with the socialist Zionist movement, leading him to an agricultural college in NYC, and finally to found a kibbutz in Sasa, Israel. He lived in Israel from 1947-1956, then returned to North America, where he eventually became a professor of Environmental Science at UMass Amherst. In this second interview for the Yiddish Book Center, Haim discusses arriving at and founding the kibbutz on Marxist and Freudian principles. He reflects...
Topics: Yiddish Book Center, National Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project, Israel, Palestine,...
Kate Potter was interviewed by Pauline Katz on January 20, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Kate’s interview focuses on her time at the Yiddish Book Center for the January term class. Originally from Southern California, Kate now lives in Massachusetts and studies English literature at Mount Holyoke. As a five-college student, Kate became interested in the Yiddish Book Center Jan-term class because of her interest in museum work. Most of the interview focuses on Kate’s thoughts on the...
Topics: Kate Potter, Books, Yiddish learning, Literature, Theater, Yiddish Book Center, Kibbutz, Yiddish...
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This color home movie footage depicts a visit to Israel, offering a look at family life on a collective farm by Zionist working families or kibbutzniks. Jewish peoples of all ages are depicted at work and leisure in casual quotidien scenes (TRT: 6:04). A man and a young boy walk toward the camera. Ducks on a farm. A man in shorts waves and climbs down a ladder from a water tower flying an Israeli flag (0:08). A Jewish woman poses with four children on the back of a truck (0:53). Underexposed...
Topics: 1950s, Home Movie, Family Life, Israel, Kibbutz, Israeli Collective Farm, Stock Footage, Periscope...
Rose (Golde-Reyzl) Stone [Birstein], sister of Yiddish writer Yossel Birstein, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 22, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Rose (Golde-Reyzl) Stone [Birstein] Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, Melbourne, Australia, February 22,...
Topics: Family history, stories about ancestors, Childhood, Yiddish language, Yiddish speaker, Immigration,...
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Alan Watt CTTM LIVE on RBN 471 Controllers Use And Select, Psychopathic Social Reject, Dec 14, 2009 Dec. 14, 2009 Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: Poem Copyright Alan Watt Dec. 14, 2009: Controllers Use and Select, Psychopathic Social Reject: "Planned Destruction of Societies Well Under Way, Promoters of Radical Change, Only Ones with a Say, T.V. Addicts Suck the Teat of Degradation, Unconscious of Methods of Mass-Persuasion, Zoologists and Anthropologists...
Topics: Deception and Brainwashing, Deprogramming the Brainwashed, Fabian Socialism, Understanding of Human...
Awi Szotten, retired computer consultant and child of Holocaust of survivors, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 26th, 2018, in Malmo, Sweden. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Awi Szotten Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, Malmo, Sweden, June 26, 2018. Video recording [...
Topics: Advice, Childhood, Jewish Identity, Yiddish language, Yiddish scene, Yiddish speaker, Israel,...
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An audio reflection from a Kibbutz in Israel
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What happens when artists establish a #kibbutz, a collective living #community in the #desert ? Neot Smadar! Established in 1989 in 🇮🇱's Negev desert 🏜️, is unlike any other. WATCH 👇 https://t.co/mxnDT22Tvt Source: https://twitter.com/Israel/status/961622012744667136 Uploader: Israel ישראל
Topics: Twitter, video, kibbutz, community, desert
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Topics: Balaban, Avraham, Balaban, Abraham, 1944-, Kibbutz Huldah, Kibbutzim, Children, Fathers and sons,...
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A piece written as a university dissertation. I don't claim it's reliably academic material, but I do hope it offers a libertarian exploration of the early Zionism movement: secular and socialist rhetoric, but inevitably compromised by the national project integral to all forms of Zionism, despite any professed radicalism.
Topics: Zionism, Labor Zionism, Palestine, Kibbutz, Israel
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Angelika Königseder: Flucht nach Berlin Jüdische Displaced Persons 1945-1948 METROPOL, 1998 Reihe: Dokumente – Texte – Materialien Veröffentlicht vom Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin Band 27 ISBN: 3-926893-47-8 Die Flucht befreiter jüdischer Menschen nach dem Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges aus Polen nach Deutschland/ Berlin ist ein Detail der Geschichte, das nicht vergessen werden darf. Viele Details des zweiten Weltkrieges sind nach wie vor nicht...
Topics: Jüdische Geschichte, jüdische Flucht, Fluchthilfeorganisation, Brichah, Durchgangsstation,...
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The first half of this broadcast is a historical sketch of women's roles in various societies from ancient times to the 1970s, and the second half is a studio discussion with a social worker, historian, anthropologist, and the host - a university lecturer in philosophy. This program is one of a ten-part 1971 University of Michigan Television Center series titled "Women and Girls." The programs explore issues related to the women's movement. Sponsor: University of Michigan
Topics: michigan, israel, carol, suburbia, sweden, the kibbutz
Source: Comcast Cable
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Join Michal as she takes us to the place where the #history of the Israeli #breakfast began - the #Kibbutz! 🇮🇱🍴🍳🥤🍅☕️ https://t.co/zllGEy5I3S Source: https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1080841213232574465 Uploader: Israel ישראל
Topics: Twitter, video, history, breakfast, Kibbutz
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May 25, 2017
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Ari Lipinski explaines the biblical background of the 8 names of the Shavuot Holiday (Shavuot, Chag haShvuot, Chag HaBikurim, Chag Matan Torah, Chag haKatsir, Chag HaChamishim, Atzeret, Hakhel. Ari decribes the customs and the traditional food characterizing the Holiday. The essay is illustrated and includes many exact references of Bible quotes and famous commentaries of major expositors. You may find illuminating comparisons of translations. More at: www.arilipinski.com
Topics: Ari Lipinski, Shavuot, Chag haShvuot, Chag HaBikurim, Chag Matan Torah, Chag haKatsir, Chag...
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This amateur, color home movie footage depicts a visit to Israel by Jewish Americans in the early 1950s, offering a look at collective farming and colonization efforts of the kibbutz movement by socialist Zionist working families or kibbutzniks, as well as a Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America (AMIT) vocational school for children (TRT: 12:52). A monumental stone pillar sits at the base of a rocky hillside. A traveler looks up at the tower from below (0:08). A woman wearing glasses and a...
Topics: 1950s, Home Movie, Visit To Israel, Collective Farm, Zionist Kibbutz, Jewish Americans, Stock...
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The first half of this broadcast is a historical sketch of women's roles in various societies from ancient times to the 1970s, and the second half is a studio discussion with a social worker, historian, anthropologist, and the host - a university lecturer in philosophy. This program is one of a ten-part 1971 University of Michigan Television Center series titled "Women and Girls." The programs explore issues related to the women's movement. Sponsor: University of Michigan
Topics: michigan, israel, carol, louisville, kentucky, suburbia, sweden, the kibbutz
Source: Comcast Cable
Compilation of Aube material recorded in 1996 for compilation releases. Remastered in 2001 - 2002 at Studio MECCA, Kyoto, Japan. Limited edition of 500 copies. Music By, Artwork By [Design] – Akifumi Nakajima
Topics: aube, recontextual, abstraction, gender, less, usa, kibbutz
Explains how the kibbutz settlements of Israel are organized as agricultural communities to serve all the people living there. Show how the kibbutz society has been brought to fulfillment at Dafna in Northern Galilee.
Topics: academic film, kibbutz, Israel
Contenidos: In memoriam del bailarín mexicano, Jesús Romero. La contundencia evocativa de Horses in the sky. La danza es mi camino, el cambio es mi camino. Claustrofobiedad. Dossier dedicado a la danza en Argentina: Un panorama más político que poético de la danza en Argentina; Feminismos, artes, mujeres y una diversas forma de danza; Hablar para atrás; Coreografía extramuros. Fotorreportaje sobre la fiesta de XV años.
Topics: Danza contemporánea, danza argentina, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Prodanza, Susana Tambutti
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The Birthright Israel Chronicles: Part 2
Topics: BeyondThePale, WBAI, Birthright, Israel, kibbutz
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xv, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Sociale aanpassing, Kibboetsen, Religious Kibbutz Federation, Jodendom, Jews Culture, Israel,...
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Song Jewish
Topic: holocaust antisemitism Rabbi kibbutz Jewish Cabala antizionism falashas Hebrew Judaic