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.

On Visiting Vilna, Where My Father, Great Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever Wrote

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Mira (Mirele) Sutzkever, daughter of Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, describes her first visit to Vilna, where she was able to visit some of the locations her father wrote about in his poems.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mira (Mirele) Sutzkever.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.