Season 1 - 6 x 45 minutes | World PremiereIn German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, subtitled in French and EnglishBroadcast on 7 April 15:00 - 16:45 | Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière
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Meant to be. That's what Eleanor Reissa says about her role as Lilka Zweifler. Listen to her inspiring personal stories about Holocaust survivors and the parallels between her and Lilka.
Lilka Zweif…
Created and showrun by David Hadda, the six-part series will premiere in Germany, April 30th.
"Series about Germany’s Nazi past are legion. Most Germans, however, may be hard pressed to remember a Ge…
The Museum of Jewish Heritage solemnly observed Holocaust Memorial Day weekend on Sunday with a special, star-studded reading of Elie Wiesel's Night that
Actress Eleanor Reissa joined the Museum of J…
Eleanor Reissa is a Broadway/television actress, director, prize-winning playwright, author, and host of the Yale University/Fortunoff Video Archive podcast: Those Who Were There: Voices from the Hol…
Our interview with Eleanor Reissa offers insight into the process of writing a memoir, going deeper into her relationships with her parents, and uncovering a past that was in a kind of limbo of memor…
Wow! I was nominated for “Best Author Performance for an Audio Book” by the SOVA awards! If you live long enough, anything is possible. Hare Krishna!Giant thanks to my thoughtful producer, Claton But…
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
As I stepped out of the center into a brilliant New England summer afternoon, I thought of the session given by Eleanor Reissa, perhaps the best-known Yiddish sing…
A longtime participant at Yidstock is Eleanor Reissa, a New York actress, singer, and playwright who has a long history with the book center. This year Reissa sang as part of her own ensemble and wit…
“Speaking Yiddish fluently is something that is in demand on a certain level, and is something that is so extremely pleasurable, and so extremely expressive, that it’s hard to not want to be in that …
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Eleanor Reissa, singer, actress, and director in both Yiddish and English, was interviewed (remotely) by Nina Pick on February 1st, 2022 in Carmel, New York. Recorded as part of the Collecting These …
A little bit of filming in Venice. Thank you Hershey Felder and company!
On June 29, New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will launch a new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app created by Bloomberg Philan…
Listen to my interview with Joan Hamburg.
Hamburg is a familiar and award-winning voice in New York radio, best known for her years spent as host of “The Joan Hamburg Show” which was widely considere…
In this episode of Can We Talk?, Nahanni Rous talks with Eleanor about how her life has been defined by being the daughter of people who lived through the Holocaust.
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