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Kristallnacht: A Personal Account
Arnold Friedman, Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, describes the night of November 9-10, 1938, when throughout Germany and Austria synagogues, Jewish stores and homes were...
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My mother's childhood
EX187_834 Diana Bregman Feld, daughter of Yiddish poet Edith Kaplan Bregman, describes her mother's childhood in a shtetl in Russia and her immigration to the United States.
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How She Got Her Name
Isabel Belarsky, daughter of singer Sidor Belarsky, tells how both her first and last name were given to honor her grandmother who died in a pogrom.
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Isabel Belarsky Remembers her Father, Sidor Belarsky, "Master Singer of the...
Isabel Belarsky provides a unique perspective into the life of her father Sidor Belarsky, a world-renowned singer. In this video, learn about Sidor Belarsky's unlikely career beginnings, his...
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My Mother Described the Pogrom of 1909
EX250_1806 Adina Gordon, art historian and Yiddish speaker, tells her mother's account of the 1909 pogrom in her Polish town, how her house was looted after the pogrom, and how she got her possessions...
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1920 Pogrom in Zamosc, Poland
EX305_1469 Mark Gerstein - former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer - describes how his father experienced a pogrom in Zamosc, Poland in 1920.
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Hidden “Under Blankets and Pillows”: My Mother’s Early Teenage Years in Russia
EX422_3118 Sandra Rubin, a retired nonprofit administrator, describes her mother's means of helping to support her family in Russia, and its chilling end, which involved a narrow escape.
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One Last Cone of Sugar in Odessa: My Family's Experience During a Pogrom
EX441_2702 Beatrice Garrard, summer 2013 Steiner student, recounts a touching story about her great-grandmother's family's experience surviving the Odessa pogroms of the early 20th century.
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Coming to America, Returning to Judaism
EX441_2704 Beatrice Garrard, summer 2013 Steiner student, recounts her family's history, addressing the pogroms in Odessa, child labor in New York, tragedy in World War II, and her own search to...
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Ida Maze: The "Den Mother" of Yiddish Montreal
EX500_3707 As the first film in our "Beyond the Books" series, this short documentary features the life and works of Yiddish poet Ida Maze, a poet who cultivated a community of Yiddish writers in...
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Good, But Strong: Navigating Jewish-American Identity
EX532_3334 Max Kellerman, sportscaster and Yiddish enthusiast, talks about his identity as an American Jew and how it is rooted in American values of strength and individuality as well as Jewish...
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