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.

"I Work for the Yiddish Culture": Fira Bramson Reflects on Her Work with the Judaica Collection of the Lithuanian National Archives

Watch now:

Fira Bramson, z"l - former bibliographer of the Judaica collection of the Lithuanian National Archives - describes how she devoted herself to her work, which allowed her to travel around the world. She then tells how she works first and foremost for her culture.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fira Bramson.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Fira Bramson was born in Kovne (Kaunas), Lithuania in 1924. Fira died in 2016.