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.
For The People: Sholem Aleichem Comes to America
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Mitchell Waife, grandson of Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Aleichem, recounts how his grandfather and his family came to America with the help of American Jews' generosity at a crucial historical moment.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mitchell Waife.
This excerpt is in English.
Mitchell Waife was born in 1923. Mitchell died in 2015.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
