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 Would Sing a Song Called "Yome Yome"

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Anita Barlow, retired teacher and school librarian, remembers singing the song "Yome Yome" with her father. They would change end the song, which was about a mother trying to figure out what her daughter wants, by saying that the daughter wanted a visa to go to America.

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

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Anita Barlow was born in Kazakhstan in 1943.