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.
Growing up in the "Once" Jewish Neighborhood in Buenos Aires
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Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - describes being raised on the border between a Jewish neighborhood and a Spanish-speaking neighborhood.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
