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.

First Experience as a Midwife

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Ilene Gelbaum describes her first experience at being a midwife in the middle of the jungle in Sri Lanka during her days in the Peace Corps and hearing from the baby that she delivered many years later.

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.