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.

My History Teacher was Emanuel Ringelblum: Remembering the Poale Tsion Shule of Pre-War Warsaw

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Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, describes his time in a Warsaw Jewish school during childhood, where his teachers included the celebrated historian, social worker and activist Emanuel Ringelblum.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Henryk Robak.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

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A Polish-Born Yiddish Speaker Explains the Formation of Post-WWII Jewish Organizations in Poland

4 min 3 sec

Memories of Pre-War Yiddish Culture And My Warsaw Jewish Home

3 min 6 sec

Oral history excerpt

My Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto

Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he escaped.

Yiddish

Going to the Great Synagogue on the High Holidays

2 min 7 sec

Why Stay in Poland After World War Two?

2 min 48 sec

"To Whom Can We Transmit the Yiddish Language?”: Jewish Cultural Programming in Contemporary Wroclaw

2 min 35 sec

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