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.

"That feeling, that people have been doing this for thousands of years"

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Miriam Oles, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Eliezer Schindler, speaks about the fulfilling feeling of connection that comes from participating in and preserving the Jewish tradition, and the sense of wisdom that accompanies it.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Oles.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Oles was born in United States in 1947.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Singing Zmires (Shabbes Hymns)

1 min 13 sec

"My Mother was an Orthodox Jewish Feminist Way Before I was"

6 min 20 sec

The Unfinished Story of My Grandfather’s Letters

4 min 58 sec

It Helped Them Find “Confidence and Consolation” In The Death Chambers: My Grandfather Eliezer Schindler’s Poetry Was Recited During the Holocaust

2 min 56 sec

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