בעלאַ בריקס־קלײַן: וועגן ירחמיאל בריקס; ייִדיש אין ישׂראל
Bella Bryks-Klein: Yiddish in Israel

• March 26, 2023
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  “Yiddish Today” is a series of video programs that present artists, researchers, and cultural activists from around the world who are creating contemporary Yiddish culture.

  Watch this conversation (in Yiddish) between Eli Benedict and Bella Bryks-Klein, Hear about Yiddish in Israel, especially about her monthly publication “Vos? Ven? Vu?” (What? When? Where?), a bulletin that lets you know about all the events in the upcoming month in Israel regarding Yiddish. We will also talk about her father, the writer Rachmil Bryks, in the light of her research and works which she wrote about him. We will also talk about her various roles in Yiddish organizations and more.

  Bella Bryks-Klein was born in Stockholm, a daughter of the talented Yiddish Holocaust writer Rachmil Bryks. The YIVO and HIAS brought their family to the U.S., where she spent her childhood in Manhattan. She later moved to Israel and graduated with a Master’s from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a comprehensive thesis about her father’s life and manuscripts buried in, and recovered from, the Lodz Ghetto.

  In recent years she has dedicated herself to continuing her father’s work and disseminating the Yiddish language, culture and literature. Today she is a Coordinator at “Beth Shalom Aleichem” in Tel Aviv, representative of the Yiddish “Forward” in Israel, and interviewer and translator for “Yad Vashem”, Steven Spielberg’s “USC Shoah Foundation” in Israel, and “Yiddishpiel” theater. She is currently performing her one-woman show “Mayn Tatns Tokhter” (My Father’s Daughter) – in Yiddish, English and Hebrew. Interspersed with Yiddish songs, it is a personal view of growing up as a second-generation survivor.

  • March 26, 2023
  • On Line