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Shane Baker: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Yiddish. Recorded June 12, 2016

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Yiddish But Forgot to Ask Your Bubbie: A Friendly Gentile’s Guide, with the dynamic Shane Baker, June 12, 2016, LA Central Library.

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Sabell Bender: From Melodrama to Realism, Part 1 of 2. Recorded May 23, 2010

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First time release, leading expert in Yiddish Theatre Sabell Bender enlightens through this entertaining talk with dramatic readings from popular Yiddish plays (in English). 

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Sabell Bender: From Melodrama to Realism, Part 2 of 2. Recorded May 23, 2010

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First time release, leading expert in Yiddish Theatre Sabell Bender enlightens through this entertaining talk with dramatic readings from popular Yiddish plays (in English). 

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City of the Future: Judy Bressler – Afn Glitshn by S. Polonski. Recorded April 10, 2016

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CIYCL concert at UCLA Hillel – Judy Bressler, featured vocalist singing “Glitshn” (Sledding), music by S. Polonski. Recorded April 10, 2016.

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Intro to the Last Golden Links: Yiddish Treasures Video Archive

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Avrum Traiber, who was a member of “Undzer Grupe” LA Yiddish reading circle, reciting a poem by the famous Yiddish Bard Itzik Manger, in his beautiful Bessarabian Yiddish dialect which is now very rate. The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL) is a non profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of Yiddish.

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Avrum Traiber Reads Itzik Manger. Recorded February 2, 2016

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Avrum Traiber, who was a member of “Undzer Grupe” LA Yiddish reading circle, reciting a poem by the famous Yiddish Bard Itzik Manger, in his beautiful Bessarabian Yiddish dialect which is now very rare.

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Jews and the Great American Cream Cheese Myth: A Little History, A Little Nosh. Recorded October 25, 2015

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Rabbi Jeff Marx uncovers the truth of how cream cheese joined lox and bagels to become an emblematic Jewish American food. Recorded 10-25-15

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Drops of Joy – Poetry of Moshe Shklar Recorded February 17, 2013

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Venture through the works of LA’s own Award-Winning Yiddish Poet Moshe Shklar in an event that honors Shklar’s moving and inspiring works through readings, in Yiddish and English and some in Polish, with musical interludes. Recorded 2-17-13 at the Santa Monica Synagogue.

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