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He Was a Deadline Writer
EX167_1756 Judith Elbaum Schumer, teacher, remembers the writing habits of her father, Yiddish journalist Moshe Elbaum.
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Do Not Tell Anybody That I Was Born in China
EX167_1760 Judith Elbaum Schumer describes why she did not like telling people she was born in China or describing her father's work as a Yiddish journalist when she was a teenager attending public...
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A Sunday Afternoon with Forverts
EX202_929 Alice Ahart remembers how her father used to read the Forverts aloud on Sunday afternoons, and reflects on how most of her first encounters with art forms were in Yiddish.
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Cantor Father's Guggle Muggle Before Kol Nidre
EX266_1038 Al Rosen, WWII veteran, talks about how his father became a cantor and the special concoction he would drink before Kol Nidre to help his voice.
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Doing the Right Thing: Kosher Food for His Father
EX266_1040 Al Rosen, WWII veteran, describes how his father trusted him to "do the right thing" and provide kosher food for his visits.
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My Father Never, Ever Called Me That
EX266_1045 Al Rosen, WWII veteran, describes how his mother named him, but his father had his own nicknames for him.
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My Father, The Locksmith
EX247_1275 Elaine Trehub - retired Mount Holyoke College archivist - laughs as she recalls her father's work as a locksmith, his big church clientele, and his wonderful handwriting.
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My Father's Yiddish Expression
EX247_1317 Elaine Trehub - retired Mount Holyoke College archivist - shares an old Yiddish blessing her father used to say to her as a child.
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An Unexpected Discovery: Reconnecting With Father During WWII
EX206_1332 Eva Apfelbaum, artist and educator, shares how she and her mother unexpectedly reunited with her father and brother in the work camps of Vichy France during World War II.
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How My Mother's Temper Tantrum Got Us Into America
EX249_1337 Eva Brown - child survivor and trauma psychologist - details the decisions that brought her and her family to the United States, including a tantrum her mother had that secured her father's...
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A Double Name Change: How My Father and I Are The Only Two Isaacsons In The...
EX281_1775 Mei Li Isaacson, 2012 January term Yiddish student, described her grandfather's decision to change his last name and how her father came to change it back..
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It Sounds Like A Hitchcock Story: How the Iron Curtain Kept Me From My Father
EX323_1982 Victoria - exhibit designer at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and student of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - remembers how her father moved from Lithuania to Israel when she was nine...
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Americanization of Jewish First Names In My Family
EX305_1474 Mark Gerstein - former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer - recounts how his father and other relatives Americanized their Old World names.
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Anti-Semitism in Astoria
EX306_1635 Herb Molin, a former lawyer for the City of New York, remembers anti-Semitism in his neighborhood of Astoria and how anti-Semites threatened his father's business.
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Benzion Miller Sings Bobever Shabbes Songs
EX312_2252 Benzion Miller - world-renowned Hasidic cantor and collector and composer of nigunim (wordless melodies) - sings several Shabbes songs, including one that his father wrote as a boy.
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My Father Heard Trotsky and Lenin Speak
EX315_1824 Eva Raby - former director of the Montreal Jewish Public Library - remembers her father's stories of hearing both Lenin and Trotsky speak and how her father compared their speaking styles.
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Icchok Melamdovich's Work
EX363_1896 Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - remembers his father, Icchok Melamdovich's work: writing lectures, teaching Yiddish...
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A Nign Inspired by Church Bells
EX312_2254 Benzion Miller - world-renowned Hasidic cantor and collector and composer of nigunim (wordless melodies) - tells how his father based a composition on the sound of church bells from down...
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Smuggling Emanuel Ringelblum's Papers from Poland to Israel
EX353_1618 Rose Bergman - retired teacher and daughter of Holocaust survivors - tells the story of how her father smuggled papers about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising out of Poland, to Yad Vashem in Israel.
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A Jew Had To Be a Good Person
EX374_1953 August Maymudes remembers how his father felt a connection with the biblical prophets who went against leaders and tended to the needs of the people.
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