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 Heart of Secular Yiddish Culture: My Mother's Education in Pre-War Vilna

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Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, describes the Vilna of her mother's youth.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rivka Augenfeld.

This excerpt is in English.

Rivka Augenfeld was born in Graz, Austria in 1946.