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.
Carol Tellerman Sings from La Traviata in Yiddish
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Carol Tellerman, z"l, member of the Hazomir Chorale of pre-WWII Lodz, Poland, sings from La Traviata, the opera in translation, which she performed in her youth.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Carol Tellerman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Carol Tellerman was born in Chelm, Poland in 1922. Carol died in 2015.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
