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.
Impressions of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Gloria Fein - tour guide at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam - recounts meeting Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer: how she taught him a Yiddish word, how he was the first Jewish vegetarian she ever met, and how she later ran into him while on a trip to Israel.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gloria Fein.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gloria Fein was born in Münich, Germany in 1948.