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.
“She Had Such an Inquisitive Mind”: Dorota Liliental on Her Great-Grandmother, Regina
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Dorota Liliental, actress and great-granddaughter of the Jewish ethnographer Regina Liliental, on the lasting nature of Regina's legacy.
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.