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.

Harriet (Hasia) Segal's Oral History

Harriet (Hasia) Segal, z"l, native Yiddish speaker who co-hosted a Yiddish radio show, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 12, 2015 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Harriet (Hasia) Segal was born in 1913. Harriet (Hasia) died in 2017.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Kalmanovitsh: the Teacher

1 min 5 sec

Remembering the Glukhov Pogrom

1 min 39 sec

Shabbes and Passover in Ponevezh, Lithuania

1 min 8 sec

"Yiddish is Contagious": Perspective From a 101-Year-Old Native Yiddish Speaker

58 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Signed Resolution from the Town of Brookline Massachusetts to Honor Harriet on her 90th birthday for her contribution as an educator and Yiddishist

The Taste of Passover PBS Home Video Back, with Theodore Bikel and Harriet Segal

The Taste of Passover PBS Home Video Cover, with Theodore Bikel and Harriet Segal

A Taste of Passover Featuring Theodore Bikel, Cantor David Levine, and Chasia Segal CD, by Hankus Netsky

The Yiddish Voice Chaya Lazar's Vilna Yerushalayim De Lita CD of Broadcast 2008

The Yiddish Voice Chaya Lazar's Vilna Yerushalayim De Lita CD of Broadcast 2008, Picture 2

Hebrew Gymnasium Photograph

Hebrew Gymnasium Photograph Close Up

Harriet and her Husband at Birthday Party

Framed Portrait of Harriet's Mother

Framed Portrait of Harriet's Father

Harriet and her Husband on their Wedding Day

Portrait of Harriet and her Husband

Harriet, Her Husband, and Their Daughter, Family Portrait Outdoors

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