Interview


Other Interviews:

Boots
Sobolivka Ancedote
Seeking Help From the Valedniker Rebbe
Openhanded
Avoiding Conscription
Childhood Memories
Studying Khimesh Dilemma
Hauling Stones
The Ribnitser Rebbe
The Shtefaneshter Rebbe
"they didn't want to let me go"
With the Last Train
When Peretz Markish Came to Polonne
The Jewish House
Sleeping At Grandpa's
A Few Pengos
Vynohradiv Ghetto
"Hitler ate up our youth"
Birobidzhan in 1941
the shoykhet across from us
Playing Fiddle with my Grandfather
"a memorial plaque"
Private Teacher
a Childhood Ditty
"Look, over there is a Jew"
a Poor Family
the Great Famine Exodus
a New Life
Throwing Stones on Kol Nidre
Around Kolomyya
People Stood Outside
Return to Kolomyya
Holidays
Fixing Shoes
March to Pechera
At the Yiddish School
The Goat
Yefingar Colony
Gefilte Fish
Celebrating Holidays
Toward Israel
Matzo Baking with Neighbors
Matzo Baking in the Shtetl
Passover Soup
Stuffed Neck with Chicken Fat
"a very religious family"
A Wealthy Family
Survival
"forward"
"go there"
Postwar Religious Practice
A Gravestone for My Mother
"make it a synagogue"
A Piece of Bread
Minkatch: a Jewish Town
The Hard Years
Tailored Suits
From Hungarian to Russian Forced Labor
Carving Tombstones
Communal Matzo Baking
Extinguishing Coals
Left Behind
A True "Khosid"
"Let her pray"
Selection at Auschwitz
A Child Lost To The Evil Eye
A Neolog Family
After The War
Yiddish and Hungarian
Bubbie Zisl
Coming Home
Vorkutlag
Childhood On A Farm
Mauthausen
"all of Tulchyn into one courtyard"
"they threw us out of our homes"
From Tulchyn to Pechera
They Took Her - Alive
Bessarabian and Bukovinian Jews
Show Trial in the Camp
Inside the Camp
Transport of Corpses
A Small Ladder to Heaven
Rebbe, Reb Shneyer
On the Way Home
Saving the Synagogue in Khust
Arrival in Prague
Liberation
Leaving For Home
Thank God We Had a Piece of Bread
Sobolivka
"...and we lived well"
"stuffing ourselves"
A Little House with a Dirt Floor
A Pair of Shoes
A Blanket to Fight Hunger
A Family Played the Fiddle
Avrum-Yosl the Glazier
Home: One Small Room
Running Away from the Melamed
The Great Synagogue
Cantor Gaz
Wooden Synagogue
Food on Sabbath
Sabbath Was Sabbath
"as though God had baked it"
Seder on a Kolkhoz
Hunger of 1946
"Der Shtern"
Peeking into the Men's Section
The Binding of Isaac
The Matzo Bag
"and a goat on a chain"
Eating Sour Mash - the Great Hunger
Kheskele - the Clarinetist
Burial Customs
"I was a courageous lad"
Krishmeleyenen
Hebrew - the Language of Prayer
"In short, I am a Jew"
Evacuation of the Communists
With Horse and Wagon to Donbas
Tashkent-Samarkand-Panjakent
Making Matzo Dough with a Roller
Craftsmen and Merchants
"I love Yiddish"
Valik, Zhuzhia and Ivanov
"And every day we waited to die"
Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt (Scattered and dispersed)
The Butcher's Synagogue
Army Training
Transmitting Secrets to America
At the Yiddish School
Postwar Charity
"the first bomb fell"
"as soon as they attacked, they were already here"
Tomashpil Massacre of August 4, 1941
Inside the Ghetto
Good Christians
The Jewish Soul
Bergider and Golda Meir
The Article
Antisemitism
Inside the Ghetto
The Orchard and the Mass Grave
The Southern Bug River
"Christ has risen"
Inside the Camp
"when I encountered the Germans"
Career in the Red Army
"Misha Katsop"
My Grandfather and the Priest
My Grandfather's Observance
"they wanted us to stay alive."
Speaking Yiddish
The Mass Grave in Sobolivka
"don't run into the forest"
Bratslav Matchmaking
"we need to have a wedding!"
“our children’s children’s children’s children must know”
A Great Hunger Myth
Jewish Professions
A Coachman's Song
Vanity of Vanities
I'm leaving you my dear in-laws
Getting Ready For Sabbath
How to Get Food
Liberation
Our House
What It Means to Be a Jew
Oy vey tsu mayne yorn (Woe to my years)
The Zogerin (the Synagogue Prompter)
Ekhod mi yoydeo (Who knows one)
Nuts
The Head of the Fish
Bones of Berdychiv
Dishes in the Attic
Aheym, briderlekh, aheym (Homeward, brother, homeward)
Physics in Yiddish
Oy mayn libe Basarabye (My Beloved Bessarabia)
Cholent
Bris
Sabbath and Poverty
Remedy for the Evil Eye
The Shiva
The Esebet (Reclining Bed)
Zits ikh mir in kretshme (I'm sitting in the Tavern)
The Fur Coat
Varenikes
Taking Out the Flour
Kosher Chicken
Oreme pleytim (Poor Refugees)
Money from America
May 27, 1942: Zhornyshche
The Tulchyn Pogrom
The Proskurov Pogrom
The Torgsin Store
From the Chimney to Berlin
From Tulchyn to Pechera
Let It Be Enough!
The Synagogue Cellar
The Reinsdorfs
The Prayer House
Evgeniia's Gefilte Fish
Arkadii's Gefilte Fish
Mama's Mamaliga
The Sabbath Candles
A Jew Must Eat Matzo
I Defended Stalingrad
Challah
Dovid's Gefilte Fish
Zionist Purim
Zhenya's Gefilte Fish
The Holiday Cycle
Revolutionary Celebrations and Jewish Holy Days
Khad Gadyo (One Little Goat)
Sonye's Gefilte Fish
Rolling an Egg
Homentashn
Writing in Soviet Yiddish
Remedy for the Whooping Cough
Maryam
Eating Tsimmes and Raising Geese
Women's Prayer Quorum
Sanctification of the Moon

Oy iz dus a Rebenyu” (Oh is that a Rabbi)