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.

Gilbert and Sullivan Purim

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Chana Mlotek, music archivist at YIVO, shares the sheet music from her "Gilbert and Sullivan Purim Play" and sings a Yiddish song based on "For He Is an Englishman."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chana Mlotek.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Chana Mlotek was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. Chana died in 2013.