Understanding Jewishness
EX271_1400 Hans Herda - retired math professor and Yiddish Book Center volunteer - speaks to the importance of Yiddish literature.More from this narrator: Hans Herda
View ArticleIsaac Bashevis Singer, "Not a Typical Yiddish Writer"
EX375_1966 Marvin Zuckerman, retired English and Yiddish professor, discusses Isaac Bashevis Singer's views on Jewish literature and political leanings.More from this narrator: Marvin Zuckerman
View ArticleOne Tiny Question for Bashevis Singer
EX313_3135 Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, remembers a story about Isaac Bashevis Singer. More from this narrator: Rivka Augenfeld
View ArticleSaying Kaddish For I.J. Singer
EX491_2351 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, remembers mistaking his uncle Israel Joshua Singer's death for his father's and saying Kaddish for him. More from this narrator:...
View ArticleThe Brothers Singer
EX491_2346 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, discusses the tempestuous relationship between his father and his uncle, Israel Joshua Singer. More from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleBreaking Down Walls: Overcoming the Distance Between My Father Isaac Bashevis...
EX491_2355 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, discusses his first few days in America, including his realization that his father had no time for him and the memory of how...
View Article"He Was In Love With Mr. Isaac Bashevis Singer”: Israel Zamir Describes His...
EX491_2356 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, talks about his father's simultaneous love of animals and ambivalence towards people unless they were related to his writing. More...
View ArticleA Process of Re-Writing: On Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Process of Translation
EX491_2357 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, talks about his father's translation process and why he chose to rewrite significant portions of his work. More from this...
View ArticleFamily Reunion: Meeting His Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer, After Twenty Years...
EX491_2354 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, describes his reunion with his father after twenty years. More from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleHaving Bashevis as a Father
EX491_2360 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, discusses the evolution of his relationship with his father. More from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleIsrael Zamir Recalls Attending the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony of His Father,...
EX491_2359 From the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History ProjectMore from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleChildhood and Abandonment
EX491_2345 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, remembers his boyhood in Warsaw, including his father's abandonment of the family for America. More from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleThe Ice Cream Incident
EX491_3493 Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, remembers his boyhood in Warsaw, including an early encounter with antisemitism. More from this narrator: Israel Zamir
View ArticleIsaac Bashevis Singer's Writings Opened Up a Whole World
EX359_2824 Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor in Yiddish at Lund University, speaks about the role that the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer played in nourishing his connection to Yiddish literature....
View ArticleWhen the Jewish Bulb Flickered On
EX137_591 Charles Corfield talks about the beginnings of his interest in Jewish culture. More from this narrator: Charles Corfield
View ArticleImpressions of Isaac Bashevis Singer
EX191_2072 Gloria Fein - tour guide at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam - recounts meeting Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer: how she taught him a Yiddish word, how he was the first...
View ArticleA Language "Fine-Tuned" to Explain Human Behavior: Yiddish
EX428_2649 David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, talks about his sense of the innateness of Yiddish as a sensibility, even beyond language, and its simultaneous richness and...
View ArticleThe "Mysterious Alchemy" of Embracing Yiddish
EX505_2964 Miriam Udel, assistant professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, speaks about the tension between English and Yiddish literature she felt in pursuing her doctoral...
View ArticleMeeting Isaac Bashevis Singer - At Six Months Old
EX267_2287 Alec Burko - graduate student and staff member at the Yiddish Forverts - tells how when he was six months old, his mother took him to see Isaac Bashevis Singer speak.More from this...
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