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.

Molly Picon and Death of a Salesman in Yiddish

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Miriam Bienstock, z"l, co-founder of Atlantic Records, remembers seeing one of Molly Picon's last shows, "The Kosher Widow," and says that her most memorable Yiddish theatre experience was seeing "Death of a Salesman."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Bienstock.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Bienstock was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. Miriam died in 2015.