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.

Yiddish Life in Buenos Aires

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Retired social worker, Dolph Klainberg vividly recalls the Jewish cultural life of his home town of Buenos Aires. Klainberg describes the Yiddish clubs and activities that he and his family were a part of during his childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dolph Klainberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Dolph Klainberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940.

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