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.
For Three Years, My Father Wouldn't Sign My Emigration Papers
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Yankl Garelik - Belarus-born printer now residing in Denver, Colorado - tells how it took several years to convince his father to sign the documents that would allow him to immigrate to the United States from the Soviet Union.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yankl Garelik.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Yankl Garelik was born in Belarus, USSR in 1948.
