Itche Goldberg: A Century of Yiddish Letters = Itshe Goldberg: Oyb Nit Nokh Hekher

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Barcode: 58950658 Call Number: V-HEB 123 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 83 min. Date: c2006 System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Region 1 Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Josh Waletzky Description: Since his arrival in Canada from Warsawin 1920 as a teenager, the name of Itche Goldberg has been synonymous with the linke (progressive) Yiddish movement. In 1925 Itche started Yungvelt, Canada's first secular Jewish children's camp. In 1932 he moved to New York and from 1933 until the mid-1970s he was director of the Yiddish schools and cultural programs of the International Workers order. [Beginning in 1953, following the dissolution of the IWO due to McCarthyism, the schools were run by the newly named Service Bureau for Jewish Education.] He edited Yidishe Kultur and the children's magazine Yungvorg. he is the recipient of two major literary awards: Israel's Itsik Manger Prize in 1985 and Dovid Hofshteyn Prize in 1990. His latest book Eseyen-Tsvey was published in 2006. Collection: Language Resource Center