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American Jews Didn't Quite Seem Jewish: A "European" Jewish Household
EX382_2778 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, describes her sense of European Jewish identity, growing up in the United States as the child of survivors. More from this narrator: Helena...
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Reflections on Queers in the Klezmer Revival
EX382_2787 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, reflects on the first days of the klezmer revival of the 1970s, and the intersection of Jewish and LGBTQ identities. More from this narrator:...
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My Mother Had Golden Hands: Jewish-Polish Dishes at Home
EX382_2780 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer designer, remembers her mother's "plain but beautiful" cooking. More from this narrator: Helena Lipstadt
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A Very Small Basket: Limited Knowledge of My Jewish Family Background
EX382_2781 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, talks about the culture of silence in the survivor community she grew up in, and how saddened she is that so many stories have been lost. More...
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A Better World: A Feeling of Empowerment of a Generation in the 1960s
EX382_2783 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, talks about the political and social climate of the 1960s, and the impact it had on her as a young adult at the time. More from this narrator:...
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"I Built A House!": Remembering A Feminist Collective
EX382_2785 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, talks about the impact of feminism and the women's movement on her, and the activities of a collective she helped to found. More from this...
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The Chicken Farm: An Original Yiddish Song
EX382_2772 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, describes the sudden change in milieu her parents experienced when they moved from Europe to the United States in 1952. [Note: ORT refers to...
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"Making That Bridge Through Life Rather Than Death": The Gwozdzdiec Synagogue...
EX382_2795 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, describes the trip she took to Poland with her nephew, to see Jewish Poland beyond the "charnel houses of Europe" as part of the Gwozdzdiec...
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Longing for Gan-Eydn (Paradise): Reflections on Identity, Yiddish, and Poland
EX382_2788 Helena Lipstadt, a poet and garden designer, talks about the richness of Yiddish language and culture as a means of expression, and also her conflicted feelings about her Polish heritage....
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