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.
Rebuilding Jewish Community, Including a Yiddish Newspaper, in the Berlin Displaced Persons Camp After WWII
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Mordechai Dunetz, teacher, Yiddish writer, and activist for Yiddish language in Israel, describes life in the the displaced persons camp in the American zone of Berlin after World War Two, including how he founded a Yiddish newspaper Tsu a Nay Lebn (To A New Life).
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mordechai Dunetz.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
