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.
Spirited Aunt Frieda
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Helen Yelen - wife, mother, grandmother, and friend - describes her memorable Aunt Frieda, who lived to be 104.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Helen Yelen.
This excerpt is in English.
Helen Yelen was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. Helen died in 2015.
