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.
Cousins Reunite in Jerusalem Thanks to Yiddish Radio Program
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Diana Cohen, a social worker, shares how she learned of her long-lost cousin Semyon when he was interviewed on the street in Jerusalem by a Boston-based Yiddish radio program.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Diana Cohen.
This excerpt is in English.
Diana Cohen was born in Bronx, New York in 1927.