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Coney Island with Itzik Manger
Norman, son of the Yiddish writer Leon Feinberg, remembers when Itzik Manger (the writer and close family friend) bought him a lollipop on a trip together to Coney Island.
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A Yiddish Trick
Robert Epstein tells a story about how he convinced Yiddish speakers to think he was fluent by memorizing a poem.
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Scanned this week: Itzik Manger, puzzles, Flaubert, and Don Quixote
Highlights of books recently scanned for our Digital Yiddish Library, annotated by Fellow Joshua Price.read more
View ArticleItzik Manger Reads from His Work and Is Interviewed by Abraham Tabachnick Part 1
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View ArticleItzik Manger Reads from His Work and Is Interviewed by Abraham Tabachnick Part 2
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View ArticleMemorial Evening for Itzik Manger Part 1 (March 15th, 1969) with Chana...
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View ArticleMemorial Evening for Itzik Manger Part 2 (March 15th, 1969) with Chana...
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View ArticleDelving into the life and work of Itzik Manger
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View ArticleItzik Manger Evening: "Folklore and Literature." With Chava Rosenfarb and...
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View ArticleItzik Manger Evening: "Folklore and Literature." With Chava Rosenfarb and...
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"Saturday night was like a salon at our house."
EX67_297 Harriet Bonfeld describes a typical social gathering with her father's Yiddish intelligentsia peers, from Itzik Manger to Chaim Grade.Harriet Bonfeld
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A Diverse and Public Community: A Unique Jewish Community in Montreal
EX212_1214 Anna Fishman Gonshor, Faculty Lecturer of Yiddish Studies at McGill University and Montreal-based Yiddish activist, reflects upon what she thinks makes the Jewish community in Montreal...
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“If You Want to Really Appreciate Him, Teach Yourself Yiddish”: Itzik Manger...
EX414_3270 Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Chair of the Polish Association for Yiddish Studies, gives the background of what inspired her start with Yiddish. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov
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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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Theo Bikel and Mike Burstein: Avi Hoffman Reflects on His Mentors
EX393_3530 Avi Hoffman, actor, reflects on his role models who became his colleagues in Yiddish theatre. He particularly remembers going to see his very first Broadway play as a young boy and the...
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One Foot in Shushan, One in Warsaw: Reflections on Manger's Megillah
EX503_3055 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about his love for Itzik Manger's "The Megillah of Itzik Manger," a play that blends the classic...
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"We Had to Forge Our Link Ourselves": A New Generation of Yiddish Theatre
EX503_3056 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its...
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Yiddish Theater Has Never Been One Single Thing
EX503_3073 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, explains that "Yiddish theater" has never been a monolithic, singular entity as some would allege, but...
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