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.

Returning to Sri Lanka

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Ilene Gelbaum talks about returning to where she had been stationed with her husband while they were in the Peace Corps with her children many years later.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilene Gelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Ilene Gelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.