The Meta Shtetl Overview

When the Warsaw Ghetto started being liquidated into death camps, an inhabitant named Emanuel Ringleblum led an effort to hide as much Yiddish literature and documentation as possible, to so it would not be destroyed by the Nazis. He did this by burying as much as he could underground in milk cans and other receptacles, with the hopes of survivors someday returning to transmit the collective message of Warsaw Jews to future generations. After the Holocaust, some but not all of the milk cans were recovered and preserved. They contain a treasure trove of written voices. They are the voices of my ancestors calling out to me, eighty years later here in New York. So I created a Yiddish podcast because it is my way of responding to those voices: I hear you. Your words - in their original authenticity - matter to me. Your story is now my story to te ...