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 her Memories of Bialystok

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Carol Tellerman, z"l, member of the Hazomir Chorale of pre-WWII Lodz, Poland, sings as she remembers the time she spent in Bialystok as a child.

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.