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“Closing The Circle”: Leonard Nimoy On Meeting Nimoy Relatives in Zaslav
EX483_3509 Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, discusses his trip to Soviet Russia as part of a program with the World Wildlife...
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It Wasn’t Clear Which Side Was Better: A Family of Bundists Escapes Poland at...
EX484_3478 Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, recounts his flight from Poland with his mother in the early days of the German invasion, fearing both the Nazis and...
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Afraid to Speak Yiddish in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
EX484_3480 Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, discusses the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union in the 1940's, recalling the hesitation of Birobidzhan's...
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A Japanese Diplomat Saved My Family During WWII
EX484_3481 Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, retells the story of how his family hid out in Lithuania after they fled Poland before getting a travel visa with the...
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A Shared Cigarette: Siblings Secret Goodbye During World War Two
EX484_3482 Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder, recounts being hunted by the Soviets as well as the Nazis because of their Bundist political affiliation. He describes his family's...
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Discovering Hebrew in Moscow
EX436_2878 Ber Kotlerman, native Yiddish speaker from Birobidzhan and professor of Yiddish language and literature at Bar-Ilan University, speaks about his first interaction with the Hebrew language...
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My Family's Expulsion from and Return to Lithuania
EX454_2333 Naomi Bloch, Yiddish librarian and translator, discusses her mother's family's expulsion from Lithuania during the First World War.More from this narrator: Naomi Bloch
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"The Last Day of Joy": Chernowitz in 1945
EX333_2267 Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman z"l, Yiddish poet and songwriter, remembers the exodus of Jews and her sense of foreboding when the Russians arrived in her hometown of Chernowitz following the...
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My Introduction to Communism
EX539_3337 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, recalls an episode from her childhood years in Odessa during the tumultuous period of...
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"Huge Black Iron Gate": A Childhood Memory of Odessa
EX539_3338 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes the heavy, iron gates at her childhood home in Odessa. She recounts visiting...
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"You Have To Be Hungry To Appreciate Food": Chocolate Arrives to Odessa in a...
EX539_3339 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, recalls the food shortages of her childhood in Soviet Ukraine and how her early...
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Learning Empathy During the Russian Revolution
EX539_3353 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes being sent away to a camp for the "Children of the Proletariat" because they...
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To Me, He Was "Papa": My Grandfather, Sholem Aleichem
EX539_3355 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, recounts her grandfather's final illness and death. She reflects on his legacy, noting...
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Memories of the Russian Revolution
EX539_3713 Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels, describes her childhood home in Odessa and recounts a gruesome shooting which occurred...
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Witnessing the Aliyah of Soviet Jewry
EX589_3559 Michel Araten, banking/operations researcher by profession, describes the experience of waiting for his departure flight in an Israeli airport after visiting his parents there and seeing...
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