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.
Late President of Lithuanian Jewish Community on Modern Jewish-Lithuanian Relations
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Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, reflects on the complicated and varied dynamics between Jews and Lithuanians, including his work to counter antisemitism.
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.
