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.

My Father Read Sholem Aleichem to Keep us Laughing: The Boat Ride From Buenos Aires to New Orleans, 1947

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Retired social worker, Dolph Klainberg, tells the story of his family's boat ride to New Orleans, how his father read Sholem Aleichem stories to entertain the children, and being in the Caribbean Sea during a hurricane.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dolph Klainberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Dolph Klainberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940.