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.
Shocking Family Stories
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Laurie Liberty, title searcher and great-niece of Yiddish writer Shea Tannenbaum, tells a story that she was able to uncover about a relative who had passed and was haunting the family until they fixed her burial clothing.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Laurie Liberty.
This excerpt is in English.
Laurie Liberty was born in Rockville Center in 1959.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
