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.
Reading Sholem Aleichem in Russian and Yiddish
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Agnieszka Ilwicka, Yiddish Book Center Fellow, remembers listening to her father read Sholem Aleichem stories in Russian and describes reading those stories in Yiddish for the first time.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Agnieszka Ilwicka.
This excerpt is in English.
Agnieszka Ilwicka was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1986.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
