BYBS-Oral_Histories

 

 

 

This is a ‘sampler’ of some of the interviews.  The numbers following each title indicate the starting point on the video timeline.

The Trib Was Banned – Jerry Shnay (0:16)
The Courtship – Lucille and Henry Wolf (2:00)
Saved by a Stranger – Edith Strauss (3:30)
Welcoming the Rabbi and Rebetzin – Leo and Helen Wolkow (7:28)
The Second Pogrom – Janet Muchnik (8:47)
From Beyt Din to Sinai – Mercedes Neves Hatchwell (10:54)
Cocoa for Yom Kippur – Edith Strauss (12:47)

Click on each link to view clips from Shir Tikvah’s growing collection of oral history interviews.

The Jewish Traveler – Helen Wolkow

A Taste of Klezmer – David Gottlieb on the Klezmedics

Re-Naming Moses – Rabbi Shalom Podwol

Three Gyms for Jerry: A West Side Story – Jerry Shnay

Choosing Henry – Henry Lorsch

Hiding from the Tsar – Janet Muchnik

Rabbi Wolkow’s Wager