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.
Performing Mordechai Gebirtig at Yad Vashem
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Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, on the poet Mordechai Gebirtig and the experience of performing Gebirtig's work at Yad Vashem in Israel.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bente Kahan.
This excerpt is in English.
Bente Kahan was born in Oslo, Norway in 1958.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
