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.

My Father's Story of Storming the Winter Palace

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Harriet Bonfeld, educator and daughter of Yiddish poet and journalist Leon Feinberg, retells her father's memory of storming the Winter Palace, illuminating the relationship between personal and political histories.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harriet Bonfeld.

This excerpt is in English.

Harriet Bonfeld was born in Bronx, New York in 1946.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.


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