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.
"It was black market money, it was no food in the stores-": First Impressions of Poland under Martial Law
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, explains what it was like to have her first visit to Poland in 1981 coincide with the institution of martial law in the country.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
This excerpt is in English.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1942.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
