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.

A Brief History of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater

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Aron Gonshor - actor in the Montreal Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and surgeon - recounts the history of The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater, of which he has been a longtime member.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Aron Gonshor.

This excerpt is in English.

Aron Gonshor was born in Poland in 1947.