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.
Yiddish Culture in Soviet Vilna
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Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, describes how, unlike other parts of the USSR, Vilna had several recognized Yiddish cultural organizations.
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.
