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 Grandmother's Folk Tales and Card Games

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Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - remembers how his grandmother spoke only Yiddish with him, told stories, and taught him the card games mentioned in Sholem Aleichem's writing.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum was born in Argentina in 1943.