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Growing Up on Fox Street
Jacob Schlitt fondly remembers growing up in the Bronx, in what some consider the worst section of the neighborhood, Fox street.
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Linguistic Fusion: How Yiddish Speakers Made English Their Own
EX399_2217 Helene Shafran, born to Yiddish-speaking Polish immigrants, describes how her immigrant relatives adapted English and Spanish words into their Yiddish vocabularies.
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I Saw All of Them; I Wouldn't Miss Them:" Yiddish Theatre and Film
EX439_2553 Selma Gordon, a retired school aide, talks about going to Yiddish theatre and film productions as a child.More from this narrator: Selma Gordon
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Avreml: My First Starring (Yiddish) Acting Role at Age Four
EX393_3533 Avi Hoffman, actor, reflects on his first ever performance as "Aleph-Avreml" in a play written by his mother and some of the other teachers at the Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul on Bainbridge...
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"It Was Buzzing With Activity": Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul #21
EX393_3531 Avi Hoffman, actor, recalls with fondness the many hours he spent as a boy at Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul #21 in the Bronx, remembering it as the center of creativity and innovation in the...
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A Core of Yiddishists in the Bronx: Secular Yiddish Culture and Jewish...
EX393_3529 Avi Hoffman, actor, describes growing up among the vibrant community of secular Yiddishists on Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx, and the passion and scholarship they devoted to the cause of...
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"An Entire World of Creativity": The Secular Yiddish Scene in New York in the...
EX393_3532 Avi Hoffman, actor, recalls his childhood neighborhood around Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx as a center of creativity and rebirth for the secular Yiddishists who made it their home after...
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Laundry in an East Bronx Kitchen
EX440_2685 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, describes his childhood apartment, a fourth-floor walk-up in the East Bronx, where he lived with his parents and brother.
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