Seeking Individuals with Yiddish History to Participate in Important Local Yiddish Culture Preservation Project
The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture is currently developing a documentary film on Miami's Yiddish Past, covering the 1920’s through the 1980’s. They have already held fascinating interviews with still living stars of Yiddish theater, radio and literary events in Florida including Claire Barry of the Barry Sisters, the Feder Sisters, Charlotte Cooper, (a Miami Yiddish Vaudeville star) among many others. They have also collected over 30 hours of archival footage of this important era. The Dora Teitelboim Center will be hiring Carl Hersh, an Emmy-Award winning filmmaker to help make this project a reality.
Wolfie's, the last vestige of Miami's Yiddish Past, is about to be demolished and they will be videotaping its demise as well as interviewing people who can speak to the Yiddish cultural activities that occurred in and around Wolfie's.
If you have a history with this era and would like to participate in this project and be interviewed, please contact the center as soon as possible by email: info@yiddishculture.org or telephone David Weintraub, Executive Director: (305) 774-9244. If you know of people who you think should be included in this film, please pass this information onto them.
As always, funds are needed to help the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture hire Carl Hersh and to cover the cost of preserving archival footage that is rapidly disintegrating. If you can help, please give generously.
Donations can be sent to:
DoraTeitelboim Centerfor Yiddish Culture
P.O. Box 14-0820
Coral Gables, FL 33114-0820
To learn more about this project and the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture go to: www.yiddishculture.org and click on “A Tropical Yiddishland Called South Beach.”
