Nora Jean and Michael Levin talk about their "little history project," Washington DC, 1989:
A Border Town in Poland:
o ZOOM Book Launch (October 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAX73y3g8w
o ZOOM presentation to Jewish Genealogy Society of Los Angeles (April 2022):
Two Pianos: Playing for Life:
o "Sizzle Reel" overview with clips from rehearsals, presentations or performances in Philadelphia. Leipzig, and Newark NJ (Rutgers University) (January 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALh89WDNs0&feature=youtu.be
o Two Pianos: Playing for Life YouTube channel play list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRzW63cRCiBKHf0wDrmUAYBEuG81pOzE
o October 2019, Rutgers University/Newark NJ performance
Video Clip: "1938 -- Deportation from Leipzig to Poland"
Interview with Jola (Schulsinger) Hoffman
Kean University (NJ) Holocaust Resource Center, Nov. 1987
(Now archived at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC)
Select Oral History audio clips from taped interviews (audio quality to be upgraded):
Hirsch Bieler, recorded Philadelphia PA 1979-1980: A Zionist (future president of Israel Zalman Shazar) recruits in Grajewo, causing a synagogue riot:
Hirsch sings the Hebrew bedtime song he sang to his small daughter Tania in Tel Aviv, 1936-37:
Rebecca Burstein-Arber, recorded Tel Aviv March 1980: violinist-composer Joseph Achron calls on Rebecca in Revolutionary Petrograd and asks her to play his new compositions, under somewhat strained circumstances, c. 1919:
Halina Neuman (recorded in her NYC apartment, 1981) describes music as survival and plays the Chopin Mazurka she has just seen Gelsey Kirkland (choreographed by George Balanchine) dance at the New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center:
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