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.

Growing Up in Kyiv's Besarabka Neighborhood

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Marina Vaysberg, reference librarian at the College of Saint Rose, describes the neighborhood in Kyiv in which she grew up and gives some of its highlights, including the Brodsky Synagogue and a memorial to Sholem Aleichem.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marina Vaysberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Marina Vaysberg was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1962.