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.
Yiddish Stories from a Childhood in Buenos Aires
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Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - describes the stories his father read aloud and invented when he was a child.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum was born in Argentina in 1943.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.