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.

The Kletskin Publishing House Was Downstairs: Prof. Benjamin Harshav, z"l, Remembers From His 1930s Childhood in Vilna

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Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - describes helping out in the print shop on the bottom floor of his apartment building when he was young.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1928. Benjamin (Binyomen) died in 2015.