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0:00 - Introduction 1:19 - Moishe's Family Background

Keywords: Arbeter Ring; aunts; brother; Bundism; Bundists; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Chiune Sugihara; choir; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; father; Holocaust survivors; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kobe, Japan; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kowno; labor movements; labor union movements; Lodz; Lodzsh; meetings; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; mother; parents; Shanghai, China; Shoah; siblings; socialism; socialists; Sweden; uncles; Varshah; Varshava; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; visa; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; Wilno; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; zitsung; Łódź, Poland

5:20 - Moishe's Memories of Events Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Keywords: "Piano Sonata No. 2"; Arbeter Ring; aunts; brother; childhood; cousins; extended family; father; Frederic Chopin; Frédéric Chopin; grandmother; grief; grieving; Holocaust survivors; Jewish community; Jewish identity; labor movements; labor union movements; memory; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; mother; parents; photographs; pictures; Shoah; siblings; sister; uncles; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; wedding; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle

9:27 - Moishe Describes his Secular Jewish Day School

Keywords: "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; children; English language; Farband; folkshul; French language; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Hebrew Language; Holocaust survivors; Jewish communities; Jewish community; Jewish day school; Jewish education; Jewish neighborhood; Jewish People's Schools; Jewish Peretz Schools; labor movements; labor union movements; Labor Zionism; Labor Zionists; Les Écoles Juives Populaires; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Mordecai Richler; prayer; secular education; secular Judaism; siddur; sider; Yiddish language; Yidishe Perets shuln; Yidishe Perets-shuln; Yidishe Peretz Shuln

12:11 - Yiddish and Sense of Community at Camp Hemshekh

Keywords: 1967 International and Universal Exposition; American identity; Arthur Lermer; Bundism; Bundists; Camp Boiberik; camp directors; Camp Hemshekh; Chana Paloge; community; Daniel Libeskind; David Levine; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; Elliott Palevsky; English language; Excelsior Hotel; Expo 67; Facebook; Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye; FPO; Gabby Frishdorf; Gabrish Frishdorf; Gavriel Frishdorf; George Lermer; Gershon Zalcman; Hanna Frishdorf; Helen Paloge; Holocaust survivors; Hunter, New York; Jewish community; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; Liberty, New York; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Medem Sanatorium; Menukha Zaltzman; Moish Palevsky; Montréal, Québec; Montreal. Quebec, Canada; partisans; resistance movements; Rhinebeck, New York; Ruth Levine; Saugerties, New York; Shimke Palevsky; Shoah; socialism; socialists; United Partisans Organization; Varshah; Varshava; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; Wilno; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

21:05 - Zalman Mlotek's Impact on Camp Hemshekh

Keywords: 1960s; Camp Boiberik; Camp Hemshekh; cousins; Holocaust; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish summer camps; music director; Rhinebeck, New York; Shoah; singing; socialism; socialists; Yiddish culture; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Zalman Mlotek

23:26 - Holocaust Memorial Events at Camp Hemshekh

Keywords: 1960s; Camp Hemshekh; commemorations; cousins; Daniel Libeskind; drama; Ghetto Day; Ghetto Denkmol; Ghetto Night; Holocaust; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; memorials; music; plays; poems; resistance movements; Shoah; socialism; socialists; Zalman Mlotek

27:50 - Organizing a Yiddish Musical Program with Zalman Mlotek and Sholom Secunda

Keywords: "Dona Dona"; "Donna Donna"; "Dos kelbl (The calf)"; "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; Camp Hemshekh; concerts; Concord Resort Hotel; cousins; Jewish culture; Jewish music; Kiamesha Lake, New York; Lazar Weiner; Mountain Dale, New York; Sholom Secunda; Yiddish culture; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Zalman Mlotek

31:32 - Acting in "Mirele Efros" with Ida Kaminska

Keywords: "Di tsvey brider (The two brothers)"; "Man of La Mancha"; "Mirele Efros"; "Motl der operator (Motel the Operator)"; 1960s; acting; actors; Arlo Guthrie; Bruce Adler; Camp Hemshekh; cast; Chaim Tauber; folkshul; Harold Leventhal; Henrietta Jacobson; Hershel of Ostropol; Hershele Ostropoler; Hy Jacobson; Hymie Jacobson; I.L. Peretz; Ida Kaminska; Irving Jacobson; Isaac Leib Peretz; Jacob Gordin; Jewish People's Schools; Jewish Peretz Schools; Jewish summer camps; Judy Collins; Julius Adler; Karol Latowicz; Les Écoles Juives Populaires; Meir Melman; Menachem Fox; Michael Fox; Miriam Kressyn; Montréal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; New York City, New York; Place des Arts; Québec; Ruth Kaminska; Sam Leve; Shmulik Goldstein; Smhmuel Goldstein; Woody Guthrie; Y.L. Peretz; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yidishe Perets shuln; Yidishe Perets-shuln; Yidishe Peretz Shuln; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz; Zalman Mlotek

38:52 - Moishe Talks about Dora Wasserman

Keywords: actors; Centre Segal; Dora Wasserman; Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre; GOSET; Ida Kaminska; Montreal Yiddish Theatre; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Moscow State Jewish Theater; Moscow State Jewish Theatre; Moscow, Russia; S. Mikhoels; Salomon Mijoels; Segal Center; Segal Centre; Sh. Mikhoels; Shelomoh Mikhaʼels; Shelomoh Mikhoels; Shlomo Mikhoels; Shloyme Mikhoels; Shloyme Vovsi; Solomon M. Michoels; Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoel; Solomon Mikhaĭlovich Mikhoėl; Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels; Solomon Mikhailovich Vovsi; Solomon Mikhaĭlovich Vovsi; Solomon Mikhoels; theater director; theatre director; Yiddish culture; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

41:28 - Moishe's Early Experiences Acting and Living in New York City

Keywords: "Los árboles mueren de pie (Di beymer shtarbn shteyendik)"; "Los árboles mueren de pie (The trees die standing)"; "Los arboles mueren de pie"; "Mirele Efros"; acting; actors; chazanut; chazanuth; chazzanut; chazzanuth; David Kousevitzky; David Kusevitsky; Dora Wasserman; dramas; hazanut; hazanuth; hazzanut; hazzanuth; Henrietta Jacobson; Ida Kaminska; Jewish liturgical music; Jewish Teachers’ Seminary and People’s University; Khayim Shloyme Kazdan; khazones; Max Bozyk; New York City, New York; plays; Reizl Bozyk; Roosevelt Auditorium; Roosevelt Auditorium, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Rose Bozyk; Shalom Noble; Shloyme Nobl; Sidor Belarsky; singing; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

45:07 - Moishe's First Production at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

Keywords: "Der morgen zhurnal"; "Der morgen-zhurnal (The morning journal)l"; "Der Tog (The Day)"; "Mayn tatns beys din shtub"; "Mayn tatns beys-din shtub (In my father's court)"; "Tog morgn zhurnal"; "Tog-morgn zhurnal (Day morning journal)"; acting; actors; Berta Gersten; brother; father; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Garden Cafeteria; I.B. Singer; I.J. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Israel Joshua Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jacob Ben-Ami; Louis N. Jaffe Theater; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Nathan Swerdlin; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; Nosn Sverdlin; Perets Hirshbeyn; Peretz Hirschbein; Sholem Asch; siblings; Village East Cinema; Yiddish Art Theatre; Yiddish literature; Yiddish theater

49:41 - Moishe Reminisces About the Earlier Generation of Yiddish Actors

Keywords: "Mayn rebetsn fun yisroel (The rebbetzin from Israel)"; "Midnight in Paris"; "Yoshke muzikant (Yoshke the musician)"; acting; actors; David Rogoff; David Rogow; Dovid Rogov; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Jacob Ben Ami; Jacob Ben-Ami; Joseph Buloff; Lillian Lux; Manasz Oppenheim; Menasha Oppenheim; Menashe Oppenheim; Menasze Oppenheim; Michael Burstein; Mieczyslaw Oppenheim; Mike Burstyn; musicals; musicians; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; Peisach Burstein; Peisachke Burstein; Pesach'ke Burstein; plays; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yosef Bulov; Zalman Mlotek

53:31 - Meetings at the Hebrew Actors' Union

Keywords: "The Rise of David Levinsky"; "The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women"; acting; actors; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Hebrew Actors' Union; Herman Yablokoff; Herman Yablokov; Herman Yablokow; Ida Kaminska; Irving Jacobson; Isaiah Sheffer; Jack Rechtzeit; Jack Rexite; Joseph Buloff; Luba Kadison; Miriam Kressyn; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; Paula Kadison; Peisach Burstein; Peisachke Burstein; Pesach Burstein; Pesach'ke Burstein; Renee Solomon; Seymour Rechtzeit; Seymour Rexite; Yiddish language; Yiddish theare; Yiddish theater; Yosef Bulov

57:32 - Moishe's Experiences as a Movie Actor

Keywords: "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"; "Avalon"; "Crossing Delancey"; "Dear Mr. Wonderful"; "Once Upon a Time in America"; "Sophie's Choice"; Abraham Leon Springer Fuchs; acting; actors; Alan Pakula; Amy Irving; Brooke Shields; films; Joan Micklin Silver; Joe Pesci; Jose Ferrer; José Ferrer; Josh Mostel; Kevin Kline; Leo Fuchs; Lou Jacobi; Meryl Streep; Michael Michalovic; Miguel Ferrer; Mina Bern; mohel; movie casting; movie premiere; movies; moyel; Peter Lilienthal; Peter MacNicol; Peter Riegert; Reizl Bozyk; Robert De Niro; Rose Bozyk; Rosemary Clooney; Sergio Leone; Shifra Lerer; Steven Spielberg; Susan Sandler; William Styron; Woody Allen; Yiddish language; Yiddish teacher; Zero Mostel

68:47 - Moishe Talks About the Beginnings of the New York Yiddish Film Festival

Keywords: "Bay mir bistu sheyn (To me you are beautiful)"; "Bei mir bistu shein"; "Mamele"; "The Village Voice"; "Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater"; "Yidl mitn fidl (Yidl with his fiddle)"; 92nd Street Y; AJC; American Federation of Musicians Local 802 Orchestra; American Jewish Congress; Arbeter Ring; Arnold Richards; Brandeis University; Central Park; daughter; Ergo Media Inc.; Eric Goldman; First New York Yiddish Film Festival; green card; J. Jacobs; Jacob Jacobs; Jacobus Albertus Michael Jacobs; Jakob Albrecht Michael Jacobs; Jakob Albrecht Michael Jacobsz; Jewish community; Jewish Museum; Jim Hoberman; Joe Green; John Lindsay; Josef Grunberg; Josef Grünberg; Joseph Green; Joseph Greenberg; labor movements; labor union movements; Liebgold, Leon; Lili Liliana; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Marvin Seiger; Miriam Kressyn; Molly Picon; Musicians' Local 802 Orchestra; Nahma Sandrow; National Center for Jewish Film; permanent resident card; producer; producing; Ruth Rubin; Seymour Rechtzeit; Seymour Rexite; Sharon Pucker Rivo; Sharon Rivo; Sholom Secunda; Society for the Advancement of Judaism; uncles; Waltham, Massachusetts; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yakov Yakubovitsh; Yiddish films; Yiddish language; Yiddish movies; Yiddish music; Yiddish Music and Theater Festival; Yiddish New York Culture Festival; Yiddish songs; Yiddish theater; Yiddish Theater Music Festival; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Yosl Mlotek

75:15 - Moishe Talks About Being a Producer

Keywords: "Rejoice With Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot"; Andy Statman; Andy Statman Trio; Broadway; Damrosch Park; Edison Theater; Edison Theatre; Emanuel Ax; festivals; Fyvush Finkel; Golden Land Concerts and Connections; Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra; GoldenLand Concerts and Connections; Henry Sapoznik; IMG; International Management Group; Isaac Stern; Itzhak Perlman; Josh Waletzky; Kapelye; Klezmatics; Klezmer Conservatory Band; klezmer music; Mandy Patinkin; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Navah Perlman; pianist; producer; Seymour Rechtzeit; Seymour Rexite; Shira Stern; Sholom Waletzky; Theodore Bikel; wedding; Yiddish language; Yiddish New York; Zalman Mlotek

82:34 - The Development of the Musical, "The Golden Land"

Keywords: "Amerike The Golden Land"; "Amerike – The Golden Land"; "Forverts"; "Live and Be Well: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture in America"; "The Forward"; "The Golden Land"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The New York Times"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; Arbeter Ring; Art D'Lugoff; Avi Hoffman; Ben Bonus; Betty Silberman; Bruce Adler; Central Synagogue; educational director; Eleanor Reissa; Emanuel Azenberg; Hebrew Actors' Union; Joanne Borts; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Manny Azenberg; Milly Picon; musical revue; Neil Simon; Norman Thomas High School; opening night; Phyllis Berk; radio stations; Richard F. Shepard; Richard Shepard; Seymour Rechtzeit; Seymour Rexite; Vicki Gold Levi; Village Gate; WEVD; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddish Theatrical Alliance; Yosl Mlotek; Zalman Mlotek

91:20 - Moishe's Remembers "Second Avenue" and "Those Were the Days"

Keywords: "Amerike The Golden Land"; "Amerike – The Golden Land"; "Hopkele"; "Mayn shtetle belts (My little town of Belz)"; "Second Avenue"; "Those Were the Days"; "‎Farges mich nit (Do not forget me)"; American Music Theater Festival; Bob Abelson; Bob Dylan; Broadway; Bruce Adler; directors; drama; Edison Theater; Edison Theatre; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Hurricane Carter; Itzhak Perlman; Jacques Levy; lyricists; lyrics; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Mary Soreanu; Michael Burstein; Mike Burstyn; Miri Sorianu; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; New York City Opera; Norman Thomas High School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; play; producers; Raymond Ariel; revivals; Robert Abelson; Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; Rubin Carter; Seymour Rechtzeit; Seymour Rexite; The Supper Club; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Zalman Mlotek

98:55 - Moishe's Time at WEVD

Keywords: "Forverts"; "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (Trop'ns Fin Regen oif Mein Kop)"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; Art Raymond; Ben Basenko; Bruce Morrow; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; Claire Barry; Corey Breier; Cousin Brucie; Danny Stiles; disc jockey; DJ; Frank Sinatra; Golden Land Concerts and Connections; GoldenLand Concerts & Connections; GoldenLand Concerts and Connections; Greek language; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Henry Sapoznik; Jewish identity; journalists; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Mordechai Strigler; National Public Radio; news agencies; news agency; news service; newspaper editors; newspapers; newswire; NPR; oldies music; producers; radio broadcasts; radio shows; radio stations; Shelomo Ben Israel; Shelomo Ben-Israel; Shlomo Ben Israel; Shlomo Ben-Israel; Shloyme Ben-Yisroel; The Barry Sisters; West Side Judaica & Bookstore; West Side Judaica and Bookstore; WEVD; wire service; WNYC; Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish Theatrical Alliance; Yidishe Artistn un Fraynd Aktyorn Klub; Yidishe Artistn un Fraynd Aktyorn-Klub; Zvi Schooler

105:43 - More on Moishe's Family Background

Keywords: "Kleine Volkszeitung"; Bundism; Bundist youth movement; Bundists; communism; communists; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; father; Holocaust; Medem Sanatorium; Miedzeszyn; Międzeszyn, Warsaw, Poland; mother; parents; Shoah; SKIF; socialism; socialists; Sotsyalistisher Kinder Farband; Tsukunft; tuberculosis; uncles; Union of Socialist Children; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Warszawa; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yosl Mlotek

108:41 - Moishe Remembers Growing Up in Montreal, Canada

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; aunts; brother; Camp Hemshekh; Canadian Jews; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; cousins; father; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; immigrants; immigration; Jewish Canadians; Jewish community; Jewish summer camps; Joseph Stalin; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; newspapers; parents; Satmar; siblings; uncles; Yiddish language

111:37 - Moishe's Mentors

Keywords: cousins; Damrosch Park; Dora Wasserman; festivals; Itzhak Perlman; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mentors; mother; Order of Canada; Ordre du Canada; parents; producers; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Yosl Mlotek; Zalman Mlotek

114:04 - Moishe Talks More About Dora Wasserman

Keywords: "Hanna Szenes"; acting; actors; Bibliothèque publique juive; children's theater; children's theatre; directing; directors; Dora Wasserman; drama; GOSET; Jewish People's School; Jewish Public Library; Konstantin Stanislavski; Marc Chagall; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Moscow State Jewish Theater; Moscow State Jewish Theatre; Moscow, Russia; plays; S. Mikhoels; Salomon Mijoels; Sh. Mikhoels; Shelomoh Mikhaʼels; Shelomoh Mikhoels; Shlomo Mikhoels; Shloyme Mikhoels; Shloyme Vovsi; Solomon M. Michoels; Solomon Mikhaĭlovich Mikhoėl; Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoel; Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels; Solomon Mikhaĭlovich Vovsi; Solomon Mikhailovich Vovsi; Solomon Mikhoels; Yiddish Drama Group; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yidishe Folks Shule

116:50 - Moishe Considers What's Special About Yiddish

Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; Adolf Hitler; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Holocaust; Israel; Israeli culture; Israeli identity; Jewish community; Joseph Stalin; Mandy Kahan; Mendy Cahan; Mordechai Bertik; Mordechai Gebirtig; Mordkhe Bertik; Mordkhe Gebirtig; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; Nazi Germany; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Shoah; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; Yiddish community; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

121:14 - The Legacy of the Actors of Yiddish Theater

Keywords: acting; actors; Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater; Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre; Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre; Israel; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; New Yiddish Repertory Theater; New Yiddish Repertory Theatre; New York City, New York; Segal Centre for Performing Arts; Yiddish culture; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

123:22 - When and Why Moishe Speaks Yiddish Today

Keywords: English language; Hebrew language; Holocaust; Israel; Jewish secularism; revival; Schechter family; secular Judiasm; Shane Baker; Shoah; Yiddish language; Yiddishist movement; Yiddishists

125:46 - Moishe's Thoughts About Camp Hemshekh and Yom HaShoah

Keywords: Bundism; Bundists; Camp Hemshekh; Congress for Jewish Culture; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; Facebook; Holocaust Remembrance Day; Jewish summer camps; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Medgar Evers; racism; Riverside Park; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; social media; socialism; socialists; Warsaw Ghetto Memorial; Yom HaShoah

127:49 - Concluding Thoughts

Keywords: Arbeter Ring; Camp Hemshekh; gala; Jewish identity; socialism; socialists; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddishist movement; Yiddishists; Yosl Mlotek

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