Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin

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Title:
Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin
Description:
Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin, master teacher at the Workmen's Circle, was interviewed by Pauline Katz on August 25, 2011 at KlezKanada. This interview is entirely in Yiddish. Kolya spent the first thirty years of his life in Birobidzhan, a Jewish Autonomous region in Siberia created as a result of Stalin's nationality policy. Jews in this region were free to pursue secular Yiddish culture, thereby retaining some aspects of Jewish culture without challenging the Soviet Union's official policies of nationalist atheism. In 1992, Kolya came to New York to pursue a Master's Degree in Yiddish from Columbia University. Since then, he has worked as a Yiddish instructor for the Workmen's Circle's adult and youth education programs, taught immersion programs at Workmen's Circle camps and conferences, and worked on a curriculum for teaching Yiddish to young beginners. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Nikolai (Koyla) Borodulin Oral History Interview, interviewed by Pauline Katz, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, KlezKanada, August 25, 2011. Video recording, https://archive.org/details/KolyeBorodulin25august2011YiddishBookCenter ( [date accessed] )
Creator:
Yiddish Book Center (Emily B.)
Date:
August 25, 2011
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Yiddish Book Center
Collection (local):
Oral Histories
Subjects:
Yiddish Book Center
National Yiddish Book Center
Wexler Oral History Project
Nybc
Ybc
Yiddish
Jewish culture
Family history
Stories about ancestors
Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
Education
Rosh Hashanah
Yiddish teaching
Yiddish learning
Literature
Advice
Yiddish language
Yiddish revival and activism
Yiddish scene
Immigration
Migration
Other languages
Books
Career and Professional Life
United States
Nikolai Kolye Borodulin
YIVO
KlezKanada
Birobidzhan
Arbeter Ring
Workmen's Circle
Crimea
Ukraine
Itche Goldberg
Miriam Dorn
City College of New York
Yiddishist
German
Communism
Lenin
Link to Item:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000158
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Language:
Yiddish