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.
Jewish Vilna After World War Two
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Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, remembers returning to Vilna after the end of World War II and describes Lithuanian Jews' comfort speaking Yiddish in public.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shimon Alperovitch.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Shimon Alperovitch was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1928.
