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 on the Synagogue in Chelm

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Carol Tellerman, z"l - member of the Hazomir Chorale of pre-WWII Lodz, Poland - talks about attending synagogue, and sings parts of a few liturgical prayers she remembers from her childhood in Chelm, Poland.

Note: When Carol refers to unmarried men not being able to sing in synagogue, she may be referring to the custom to strongly prefer married men as khazns (cantors).

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.