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.

Michael Zylberman's Oral History

Michael Zylberman, current president of the Jewish Labor Bund in Melbourne, Australia, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Michael Zylberman was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955.

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Video highlights from this oral history

God Didn't Save Them: Why My Mother was Anti-Religious

4 min 18 sec

Memories of the Vilna Landsmanshaft in Melbourne, Australia

1 min 50 sec

Communists vs. Bundists: Political Struggle in the Secular Yiddish-Speaking Jewish Community of Melbourne

4 min 36 sec

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