For #MothersDay, a favorite story about honoring mothers by including their names on the matseyve (headstone). #Yiddish author B. Demblin insisted on this, and his daughter Miriam Gross made sure to carry out his wishes, despite some protest from the Jewish establishment.

Yiddish middle school botany textbook, translated from Russian, published in Kiev in 1938 vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000013290/vi…

Christa P. Whitney, director of Wexler Oral History at the Center, takes us into the vault to show us "Shtot fun palatsn (City of Palaces)," a rare collection of poetry by Yitzkhok Berliner, illustrated by Diego Rivera and published in Mexico City in 1936.

It's with heavy hearts that we share the news that Moshe Shimon Kraus, z"l #Holocaustsurvivor and cantor (first of the Israel Defense Forces ) passed away yesterday. Here, he remembers being a #wunderkind in Ungvar.

On June 21, #FVAHT will join Wiener Wiesenthal Institut for a screening of "Ver Vet Blaybn?" and a conversation with director Christa P. Whitney. More: bit.ly/Visuals_Ver-Ve…

This month of #Midsummer we explore #Yiddishstories from #Helsinki! The 1st Jews in Finland after 1827 were soldiers of the Russian army, including Cantonists enlisted young for the infamous 25-yr draft. Today, many of the Jews in Helsinki feel connected to #Yiddish.

Boris Rubanovitsch was a Jewish teenager when drafted into the Finnish Army while his native country was fighting alongside the Germans against the Soviets invading their territory during #WW2 #JewishFinland #OralHistory shha.re/media/d2cf5846…

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to spend a year teaching Yiddish in Paris.

I’ve been so enjoying working on this series!

We aim to celebrate LGBTQIA+ stories all year long - here are some of our favorites for the last days of #PrideMonth2023 yiddishbookcenter.org/language-liter…

Muito obrigada - a groysn dank - thank you to all who attended the #virtualscreening yesterday. It was a special treat to watch & discuss in gantsn af yidish (entirely in #Yiddish) with this group from Brazil. #yidishlebt #Yiddisharoundtheworld #YiddishinRio #vivercomyiddish

This month, we're highlighting #Yiddish culture in #RiodeJaneiro Brazil as part of our year-long celebration of #YiddishAroundTheWorld - follow along to hear stories from #oralhistory abt #YiddishInRio

Radical activist Clara Lemlich Shavelson contributed to several labor and justice movements throughout her life. bit.ly/46kKm8P She worked for women's suffrage, led kosher meat price boycotts of 1917 and rent strikes of 1919. She died #ThisWeekInHistory in 1982.

We kicked off #Yidstock2023 today with a program in honor of Peter (Pete) “Klezmer Fats” Sokolow exploring intergenerational transmission in the #klezmer and #yiddishmusic scene.

Our field fellow, Agnieszka Ilwicka-Karuna, recently recorded a three-hour #oralhistory #interview with Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun. Mira is renowned artist and child survivor of the Holocaust, born in 1941 in Russia, and lived her life since WWII in #Wrocław, Poland. #Jewishart

I’ve been excited to learn about the long Jewish history of Recife, Brazil, and then the special chance to visit this month! 🤩

Our director, Christa Whitney Christa P. Whitney , represented the Yiddish Book Center and presented on the ways #multilingualism and working with a #diaspora culture (#Yiddish !) impacts every stage of the interview process.

A groysn dank, Milwaukee! Thank you for hosting our Wexler Oral History director for a workshop on #oralhistory and #archives and a film screening of our Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?) . So many wonderful connections and discussions—lomir blaybn in kontakt (let’s keep in touch)!

A groysn dank, Milwaukee! Thank you for screening our film at UWM Union Cinema, and for a wonderful talkback with Christa Whitney and Joel Berkowitz