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.

Talking About Judaism in My Polish Catholic Home

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Agnieszka Ilwicka, Yiddish Book Center Fellow, tells how her Polish Catholic family often discussed Judaism. Agnieszka remembers a picture of Jerusalem in her family's home.

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.