The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

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Ilene Gelbaum talks about her experiences in Sri Lanka as part of the Peace Corps with her husband.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilene Gelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Ilene Gelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.