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.
"It Should Be Just Like a Photograph": Collecting Ghetto Songs with Shmerke Kaczerginski
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David Botwinik, Vilna-born composer and Yiddish-language activist, remembers collecting songs with the famous partisan and poet Shmerke Kaczerginski immediately after World War Two in Lodz, Poland.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Botwinik.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
David Botwinik was born in Vilna, Lithuania. David died in 2022.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
