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American Highschoolers on a Study Trip to Spain
17 Adar II 5784 (26/03/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: In which Spanish town were the students able to see the original 1492 Edict of Expulsion of the Jews from Spain?
We recently met with a group … Leer más
A Short Story for Purim: “Dressing Up”, by Mark Binder
9 Adar II 5784 (19/03/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week we are celebrating Purim, so we thought you’d like to hear a Purim story. Mark Binder is an author and storyteller who lives in Providence, R.I. He is the founder … Leer más
Two New Novellas by Nora Gold
3 Adar II 5784 (12/03/2024) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is a “flip book” and why did Nora choose to use this format?
Dr. Nora Gold is a prize-winning author who was born in Montreal, … Leer más
N. G. Haiduck: A “Girl” Cabbie in New York
26 Adar I 5784 (05/03/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the only problem that Nancy had being a woman taxi driver?
N.G. Haiduck is an American poet. She has received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award … Leer más
Yale’s Fortunoff Archive and Songs from Testimonies Project
19 Adar I 5784 (27/02/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why is a French boy scout song included in this collection?
In 1979 the Holocaust Survivors Film Project began taping the testimonies of survivors and witnesses in … Leer más
(Jewish) Gangsters vs. Nazis (in 1930s America), with Michael Benson
12 Adar I 5784 (20/02/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who was Sparky Rubenstein and why did he become famous?
Michael Benson has written over sixty books and is one of the world’s most popular true-crime writers. During … Leer más
Gad Franco: A Sephardi Turkish Patriot, with Anthony Gad Bigio
5 Adar I 5784 (13/02/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What happened to Gad Franco when he criticized the Turkish government for imposing a heavy tax on minorities during World War II?
Gad Franco was born in … Leer más
Happy 20th Birthday, Radio Sefarad!
27 Shevat 5784 (06/02/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many listeners did Radio Sefarad have every day during the pandemic?
Radio Sefarad is a communication project of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain. This month … Leer más
Tamar Ilana: Multilingual Singer and Flamenco Dancer
20 Shevat 5784 (30/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was «Fedora Upside-Down» and what did they do?
Tamar Ilana is a flamenco dancer and multi-lingual vocalist who is based in Toronto, Canada. She is … Leer más
Guy Stern: “Ritchie Boy” and Renowned Holocaust Scholar
14 Shevat 5784 (23/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What two things does the International Institute of the Righteous do?
(Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known surviving members of … Leer más
Genie Milgrom: Between the Stone and the Flower
7 Shevat 5784 (16/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the significance of the title of Genie’s movie: Between the Stone and the Flower?
Genie Milgrom was born in Havana Cuba into a Roman Catholic … Leer más
Warsaw: A City Divided, with Director Eric Bednarski
29 Tevet 5784 (09/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many markers are there in the streets of Warsaw that indicate where the Ghetto was?
Eric Bednarski is a film writer, director, producer, and archival researcher. … Leer más
Steven Ujifusa: The Last Ships from Hamburg
22 Tevet 5784 (02/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What happened to the Jews who were waiting in Hamburg’s immigrant village when World War I broke out?
Steven Ujifusa is a historian who chronicles the confluence … Leer más
Tanya Zion-Waldoks: Haredi Feminism in Israel
15 Tevet 5784 (26/12/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How has the Supreme Court in Israel made decisions that support the position the Orthodox feminists?
Tanya Zion-Waldoks is a lecturer in the Seymour Fox School … Leer más
The Matzevah Foundation: Restoring Jewish Cemeteries in Poland, with Dr. Steven Reece
7 Tevet 5784 (19/12/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many projects and volunteers has the Matzevah Foundation had so far?
The Matzevah Foundation is a small nonprofit organization that exists to educate the public about … Leer más
Rebecca Clarren: The Cost of Free Land
1 Tevet 5784 (12/12/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What did homesteaders have to do in order to keep the free land that the United States government had given them?
Rebecca Clarren is an award-winning … Leer más
Three Chanukah Stories by I. B. Singer
23 Kislev 5784 (05/12/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week we’re celebrating Chanukah and, in keeping with our tradition here at English Corner, I’m going to read you a story–actually three stories.
“Grandmother’s Tale”, “The Devil’s Trick” and “Zlateh … Leer más
Sarah Wiek: Volunteering in Israel
16 Kislev 5784 (28/11/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where do foreigners stay while they are volunteering in Israel?
Sarah Wiek is from Germany and currently lives in a small town on the Baltic Sea, … Leer más
Anything But Yes: Jewish Life and Resistance in the Rome Ghetto
9 Kislev 5784 (21/11/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What could Jewish women in 18th-century Rome do that Catholic women could not?
Joie Davidow is the author of half a dozen nationally-published books, as well as an … Leer más
Nani Vazana: Ladino Singer-Songwriter
2 Kislev 5784 (14/11/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How was Nani able to write songs in a language that she didn’t speak?
Noam Vazana, Nani, is a singer, songwriter and musician. She plays the … Leer más
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