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.
“Even Though It's Unique, It's a Part of This Constellation”: Jewish History as Part of Polish History
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Dorota Liliental, actress and great-granddaughter of the Jewish ethnographer Regina Liliental, recalls suggesting a visit to the newly-opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, and the conversation about the Jewish and Polish History of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that followed.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dorota Liliental.
This excerpt is in English.
Dorota Liliental was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1964.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
