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Who Has Not Made Me A Woman: How Her Brother's Religious Education Upset My...
EX450_3172 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, talks about his mother's childhood, where life was simple and her family happy, until her younger brother brought home a...
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The "Runaway": My Mother's Journey To America At Age Sixteen
EX450_3173 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, tells the story of his mother's journey to America at 16, and her first job: keeping the kerosene lamps on miners' helmets...
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Mom's Lawyer, Clarence Darrow
EX450_3174 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, relates the story of how his mother became involved in the union movement, and the strike that got her sent to prison.More...
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You Always Have to Have All the Information
EX450_3177 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, talks about the political atmosphere in which he grew up, and what it taught him about the importance of doing one's...
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A Place To Be "Yiddish": Yiddish Folkshules (Schools)
EX450_3179 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, talks about his experiences in Yiddish-language folkshules (schools), and some of his most-loved teachers.More from this...
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All in the Same Economic Boat: Growing Up In Ethnically Diverse NY Public...
EX450_3180 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, remembers his experiences in the New York City public school system in the 1930s and 40s, and the ways the ethnic and racial...
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Blintzes, Hava Nagilah, And Seders: Passing Jewishness Down The Generations
EX450_3181 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, reflects on how he and his wife have tried to pass on Yiddish and Judaism to their children, and the unique difficulties of...
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Tikn Oylem (Tikkun Olam), Repairing the World at the Yiddish Book Center
EX450_3182 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, reflects on the importance of maintaining a connection to Yiddish language and culture, especially literature, because of...
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A Mother's Heart: A Yiddish Story about Yidishe Mames (Jewish Mothers)
EX450_3183 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, tells a story that his mother used to tell him when he was small, a story about the power of a parent's love and...
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A Yiddishist From Birth
EX450_3176 Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, describes the home he grew up in: how Yiddish was the language of the house, and his first language, and how his cousins...
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