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's Oral History

Carol Tellerman, z"l - member of the Hazomir Chorale of pre-WWII Lodz, Poland - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 14, 2013 in North Miami Beach, Florida.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Carol Tellerman was born in Chelm, Poland in 1922. Carol died in 2015.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Carol Tellerman Sings from La Traviata in Yiddish

1 min 24 sec

Carol Tellerman on the Synagogue in Chelm

3 min

Carol Tellerman sings "The Ghetto" by Kasriel Broydo

2 min 56 sec

Carol Tellerman Sings "Sheyn vi di Levone"

1 min 9 sec

Carol Tellerman Sings from her Memories of Bialystok

1 min 40 sec

Carol Tellerman Remembers Artur 'Szmul' Zygielbojm

3 min 37 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Carol Tellerman-document-English translation of the song "Ghetto"

Carol Tellerman and Deborah Tellerman Berkowitz's English translation of the poem "Far Vos?" ("Why?")

Carol Tellerman-document-newspaper clipping of television listing for documentary "Tradition, Then and Now" featuring image of Carol Tellerman

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Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman as a young woman

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's family, young girl with clasped hands

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's family, a toddler-age child in high chair being fed

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's family, a toddler-age blond girl in dress smiling

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's family members, two women and two children, sitting in food court

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and family members at a wedding

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's husband's passport picture.

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and child

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's family portrait at a wedding with bride

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and child

Carol Tellerman-document-flyer for Holocaust Remembrance concert in 2006

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and child

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's husband standing outdoors

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and child

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's husband holding baby

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and children

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman's husband and daughter

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman and children

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Portrait of Carol Tellerman, daughter, and assistant on day of interview

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman standing next to husband on motorcycle

Carol Tellerman-photograph-Carol Tellerman standing with her husband in front of a house

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