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.
Discovering My Polish Family's Jewish History
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Katka Reszke—wrtier, filmmaker and Polish-Jewish activist—explains the astounding process of discovering her family's secret Jewish identity and her own status as a halakhic Jew -- all this, years after having converted, made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) and written a book on Polish Jewry.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Katka Reszke.
This excerpt is in English.
Katka Reszke was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1978.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.