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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.

Today's Litvak Jewish Community in Lithuania

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Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Jewish Community in Lithuanian, describes the work of the Jewish Community, from preserving Jewish culture to fighting antisemitism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shimon Alperovitch.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Shimon Alperovitch was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1928.