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"Gettin''em back for Ploesti."
Albert Berkowitz remembers how his brother achieved "poetic justice" while in the air force during WWII.
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My Grandmother's Immigration
Al Berkowitz pieces together his grandmother's immigration story, remarking that he has always looked up to her as the "founder" of the family.
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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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From Shtetl to Ellis Island - My Mother's Immigration Story
EX227_1231 Sheila Horvitz shares a number of family stories, including her mother and grandmother's passage to America, the original documents from their immigration travels, how family names changed...
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"Yiddish Belongs to the Whole World:" The Work of the Yiddish Book Center
EX341_1463 Agnieszka Ilwicka, Yiddish Book Center fellow, discusses the work being done at the Yiddish Book Center and how Yiddish is cultural heritage of the entire world.
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Bella Sings Her Mother's Transylvanian Yiddish Shabbes Prayer
EX182_1513 Bella Bryks-Klein, Yiddish speaker and daughter of writer Rachmil Bryks, sings a shabbes prayer that her mother used to sing to her.
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Discovering the Living Language of Haredi Yiddish
EX357_2840 Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - describes the impact of seeing a living Yiddish-language culture in Haredi communities in New York.More from this...
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Learning Romanian Yiddish In Order To Conduct Field Work
EX357_2850 Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - tells how, although he speaks standard Yiddish, he has learned to speak in a different (southern) dialect so that he...
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Traveling to Eastern Europe
EX357_3403 Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - tells how as he became interested in Yiddish, he started visiting the Eastern European countries where Yiddish culture...
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Freedom From Fear: Making It in America
EX455_2329 David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, recalls his grandfather's tremendous patriotism for his adopted country. In particular, he talks about the "freedom from fear" of pogroms, arrest,...
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A Few of My Grandfather's Favorite Things
EX455_2327 David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, recounts his grandfather's love for cigars, cantorial music and schnapps.More from this narrator: David Berg
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