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.
The Rejection Letter: Abe Cahan Rejected Offer To Have My Great-Great-Uncle Shmuel Charney Write For The Forverts
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Eli Bromberg, a former Steiner student at the Yiddish Book Center, talks about his famous ancestor, Yiddish writer Shmuel Charney (aka Shmuel Niger), and Charney's rejection by Yiddish literary giant Abraham Cahan.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Bromberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Eli Bromberg was born in North Tarrytown, New York in 1980.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
