Unintentional ASMR - Sara Israel Sweetest Relaxing Voice Interview - 2012 | ASMR Archive

#asmr #unintentionalasmr #oldschool #cozyambience This video doesn't belong to me and will remove upon request. This has been considerably edited for better audio and visuals. Sara Israel was interviewed by Lesley Yalen on June 29, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center. Sara Israel is a 2011-2012 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, and she was also a 2009 Steiner Summer Program student. Sara's family on both sides came from Eastern Europe to Winnipeg, Canada, before World War II. Her mother and father both grew up in Winnipeg, where there was (and is) a significant Jewish community. Sara grew up visiting her grandparents and other relatives in Winnipeg, and she associates those visits with Jewish foods, language, and culture. Sara's parents settled in Newton, Massachusetts, and Sara grew up there with her mom, her dad, and her older brother. There is a large Jewish community in Newton, and Sara was friends with both Jews and non-Jews. Her family belonged to a Reform synagogue, and Sara went to Hebrew school and had a Bat Mitzvah. She didn't feel deeply connected to religion or to the culture as it was taught in this context, but Yiddish always interested her. She joined the Boston Workmen's Circle Yiddish community chorus with her mother and sang in it from ages 8-18, and she also took a Yiddish class through Workmen's Circle. In applying to colleges, Sara selected several that offered Yiddish, and she wound up attending McGill University in Montreal, Canada. There she studied Yiddish for four years, and read Yiddish literature. She also studied Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center in the summer of 2009, and worked as a Center Fellow in 2011-2012. Sara has found a lot of meaning in studying the language and literature; she has found it to be integral to her Jewish identity. In the summer of 2011, Sara traveled through Eastern Europe with a French friend, visiting Jewish cultural sites in Odessa, Prague, Vilnius, and elsewhere. The experience was fascinating and also sad, as it brought home for her the fact that the world described in Yiddish literature no longer exists. Sara hopes to maintain a connection to Yiddish language and culture as she moves on to pursue children's book illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design next fall. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell... To cite this interview; Sara Israel Oral History Interview, interviewed by Lesley Yalen, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Karmazin Recording Studio, Yiddish Book Center, June 29, 2012. Video recording, http://archive.org/details/SaraIsrael... ( [date accessed] ) Addeddate 2013-06-27 14:52:29 Citation Sara Israel Oral History Interview, interviewed by Lesley Yalen, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Karmazin Recording Studio, Yiddish Book Center, June 29, 2012. Video recording, http://archive.org/details/SaraIsrael... ( [date accessed] ) Color color Controlled-themes Yiddish words | Family histories | Childhood | Jewish Identity | Yiddish language | Yiddish education | Immigration and migration | Languages | Visual Arts | Music | Literature | Poetry | Education | Family traditions | Jewish holidays | Yiddish Book Center | Cultural transmission | Travel | Singing | Food | Pesach Date-themes 1990s | 2000s | 2010s Excerpts 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853 Geographic-themes Gomel, Belarus | Belarus | Poland | Romania | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Newton, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | Montréal, Québec | Odessa, Ukraine | Ukraine | Vilnius, Lithuania | Lithuania | Prague, Czech Republic | Czech Republic | Eastern Europe | United States | Canada