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.

My Father Yiddish Writer Rachmil Bryks' View on Yiddish

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Bella Bryks-Klein, Yiddish speaker and daughter of writer Rachmil Bryks, describes the value her father placed on his daughters speaking Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bella Bryks-Klein.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Bella Bryks-Klein was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Bella Sings Her Mother's Transylvanian Yiddish Shabbes Prayer

My Father Wrote "To Tell the World What Happened" (formerly "He Never Really Left the Ghetto")

He'd Go to Shul and then Buy a Newspaper

How Rachmil Bryks Wrote

She Wanted to Become an American; My Father Refused

Their World Was Lost, Not Just Their Lives

My Life Is Now Completely Immersed in Yiddish

Yiddish in Israel

Learning to Read Yiddish with Poems with my Father, Yiddish Writer Rachmil Bryks

Advice for Future Generations

My Father Always Said, "It's Best to Write About One Family"

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