Anthology [BY]: Radashkóvits, Smólevitsh, Rádin, Smargón, Óshmene, Mir, Amdúr (Video: S. Beržinis)

In the summer of 1998 I returned to visit a number of my dear old friends and teachers of Yiddish dailectology and folklore, old Litvaks, each generally the last in her or his shtetl, in storied Jewish Lithuanian towns now in western Belarus: Radashkóvits (Radáshkevits), Smólevitsh, Rádin, Smargón, Óshmene, Mir and Amdúr. I was fortunate to be accompanied by the famed Lithuanian film maker Saulius Beržinis, founder-director of Kopa Studies and the Independent Holocaust Archive of Lithuania, who videotaped many hours on the road. This is a brief non-professional anthology put together that summer for students at the first Vilnius summer program in Yiddish at Vilnius University. More data on the people who appear will be added here in due course. All have long since passed away...

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