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.

My Father Read Classic Literature in Yiddish Translation—and Years Later Discussed It with his Aynikl (Grandson)

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Anita Barlow, retired teacher and school librarian, describes how her father loved to read, despite the fact that he received little schooling and could not keep a large collection of books.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Anita Barlow.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Anita Barlow was born in Kazakhstan in 1943.

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