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.

Chana Szlang Gonshor Sings "Working Lads" by Yosl Mlotek

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Chana Szlang Gonshor sings a song that she learned in the Bund as a child in Poland that was written by her childhood friend Yosl Mlotek, later the director of the Workmen's Circle's Yiddish schools.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chana Szlang Gonshor.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Chana Szlang Gonshor was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. Chana Szlang died in 2021.

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Chana Szlang Gonshor's Arrival in Halifax

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"Children's Republic": The Medem Sanatorium

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A Typical Day At The Medem Sanatorium

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1932: Communists Attack the Bundist Medem Sanatorium

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Remembering a Poor Jewish Home in Pre-War Warsaw

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Chana Szlang Gonshor Sings "The Worker's Marseillaise" in Yiddish

1 min 23 sec

A First-hand Account Of The Medem Sanatorium

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A Refugee's First Impression Of The Montreal Peretz Shule

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Passing Yiddish Down In The Family

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