Invitation To Yiddish: Manual and Guide

cover image Barcode: 58922221 Call Number: IL-YID Mar Material Type: Print Language: Yiddish Creator: Yudel Mark Collection: Language Resource Center

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

cover image Barcode: 58950658 Call Number: V-HEB 123 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 83 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: 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 ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jewish Life in Bialystok

Barcode: 58946152 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Saul Goskind and Yitzhak Goskind Description: Vivid cinematography and music evoke the industrial and cultural center that was Bialystok in 1939. Images of smokestacks, power looms, and textile workers; downtown shops and buses, market day with peasants and horses; schools, synagogues, the Sholem Aleichem Library, the TOZ sanatorium, and a community-run summer camp reflect the diversity of the city's 200-year-old Jewish community. In addition to the tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, Jewish Life in Bialystok ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Jewish Life in Bialystok

Barcode: 58960939 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kamierczak Vivid cinematography and music evoke the industrial and cultural center that was Bialystok in 1939. Images of smokestacks, power looms and textile workers; downtown shops and buses; market day with peasants and horses; schools, synagogues, the Sholem Aleichem Library, the TOZ Sanatorium and a community-run summer camp reflect the diversity ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jewish Life in Cracow

Barcode: 58960941 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kazimierczak Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jewish Life in Cracow / Kraków

Barcode: 58946154 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Saul Goskind and Yitzhak Goskind Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kazimierczak Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Jewish Life in Lwow

cover image Barcode: 58946151 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 10 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Yizhak Goskind Description: Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city, nestled in a valley, projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces, as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles occupy its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building and the old ghetto, the softly ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Jewish Life in Lwow

cover image Barcode: 58960938 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Yizhak Goskind Description: Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city, nestled in a valley, projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces, as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles occupy its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building and the old ghetto, the softly ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jewish Life in Vilna

Barcode: 58960940 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kamierczak The rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence - at work, at play, in the synagogue and in school. Vilna’s famous landmarks - the Strashun Library, Shnipesker cemetery, YIVO ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jewish Life in Vilna / Wilno

Barcode: 58946153 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 10 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Saul Goskind and Yitzhak Goskind Description: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks-the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute-are among the film's highlights. Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Jewish People's Philarmonic Chorus - Der Yidisher Filarmonisher Folks Khor

Barcode: 58951110 Call Number: L-NY003 Material Type: Video -VHS Language: Yiddish Description: 76th Anniversary Concert. June 13th 1999. Hebrew Union College, NYC

Jolly Paupers

Barcode: 58945947 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 62 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Leon Jeannot Description: A musical comedy portraying the relentless efforts of two small-town Jews to escape their misery and achieve fame and fortune. In the face of setbacks, community quarrels and even insanity, they refuse to give into despair. With violent antisemitism intensifying in Poland and Nazism looming on the horizon, their satirical monologues provided Jewish audiences with a rare opportunity to escape through laughter. Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Laughter Through Tears

Barcode: 58946852 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 92 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover Description: Recreates a poor village in Tsarist Russia, and depicts Jewish family tradition, antisemitism, and economic hardship in the Soviet Union during the late 1920's. Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Mamele = Little Mother

cover image Barcode: 58945950 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom Description: Molly Picon is Khavtshi, the youngest daughter of a widower, who is left with the responsibility of tending house for a helpless and indifferent family of seven. As such, she becomes the mamele, their little mother. The film is filled with that special brand of humor and song that made Molly the undisputed queen of Yiddish musicals. Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Mir Trogan a Gezang

cover image Barcode: 58948951 Call Number: FR-YID Mlo Material Type: Print Language: Yiddish Description: The songs in this book represent a sampling of folk and popular songs, many of which are scattered in various song collections; some appear in very rare and inaccessible collections; some were never before published. Folk songs comprise about one-third of this volume and were selected mainly on the basis of popularity and sometimes for their historical significance. Collection: Language Resource Center

Mirele Efros

Barcode: 58946052 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Joseph Berne Description: No playwright had more impact on the character of the Yiddish theater than Jacob Gordin. Gordin was born in the Ukraine and moved to New York at the turn of the century. On New York's Jewish rialto, his plays became renowned for their sophisticated narratives that expounded on the ideals of menschlichkeit - the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion to family and community. Mirele Efros, often called the "Jewish Queen Lear," is considered Gordin's masterwork. It tells ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Overture to Glory

Barcode: 58946229 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 85 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Max Nosseck Description: Oysher is a cantor who longs for the world of opera. He leaves his wife and child to fulfill his passion, but eventually loses his voice and humbly returns to his village on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. He learns that his son has passed away, and grief-stricken, he goes to the synagogue. There, Oysher regains his voice as he performs Kol Nidre in a passionate and melodious rendering. It is an important film for several reasons. At the time of the film's release, the culture ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Overture to Glory

Barcode: 58960919 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 85 min. Language: Yiddish Creator: Directed by Max Nosseck Description: Oysher is a cantor who longs for the world of opera. He leaves his wife and child to fulfill his passion, but eventually loses his voice and humbly returns to his village on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. He learns that his son has passed away, and grief-stricken, he goes to the synagogue. There, Oysher regains his voice as he performs Kol Nidre in a passionate and melodious rendering. It is an important film for several reasons. At the time of the film's release, the culture ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Pearls of Yiddish Song

cover image Barcode: 58948950 Call Number: FR-YID Gor Material Type: Print Language: Yiddish Description: The present anthology consists of 115 songs. Some have never been published before, while others, once included in rare song collections or sheet music, have long been inaccessible. The songs reflect Jewish life in Eastern Europe and the United States and depict childhood, love, family celebrations, poverty, work and struggle. There are also songs from the Hassidic and Maskilic movements, songs of Zion and of America (the Golden Land) as well as songs from the Yiddish theatre. Collection: Language Resource Center

Psalms of Joy and Sorrow

Barcode: 58962694 Call Number: Salinger Music Material Type: Audio -CD Language: Yiddish Description: Milken Archive of American Jewish Music ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Purim Plays

Barcode: 58951107 Call Number: V-YID 001 Material Type: Video -DVD Language: Yiddish Description: Puppets, Home video by Deborah Berman, Ithiaca, NY Collection: Language Resource Center

Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

cover image Barcode: 58954504 Call Number: V-YID 005 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 92 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Yiddish, English Creator: Directed by Eve Annenberg Description: "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is a gritty, funny love story about charismatic and wayward Satmar Hasid youth who encounter Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when they help a jaded NYC emergency room nurse with the play's translation." -IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books - Di ershte bagegenish

cover image Barcode: 58949450 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: Yiddish Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Shalom Yiddish. The Audio-Oral Self-Teaching Method of Yiddish in 24 Lessons

Volume Number: vol. 2 Barcode: 58952746 Call Number: IL-YID Kos Material Type: Print Language: Yiddish Collection: Language Resource Center

Tevye der Milkhiker

Barcode: 58952982 Call Number: International Jewry Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. Language: Yiddish Description: The character of Tevye the Dairyman originated a century ago in a series of stories by Shloime Rabinovitz (1859-1916), the immensely popular Yiddish writer who went by the pen name Sholem Aleichem. Some of the Tevye stories were adapted for the stage and silent screen by Aleichem before his death. Much later they were seen in musical form in Fiddler on the Roof, the tremendously successful American play and film. This Tevye, directed by and starring the great Yiddish actor Maurice Schwartz, ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection