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.

Flying Souls: My Grandparents' Legacy

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Marina Vaysberg, reference librarian at the College of Saint Rose, reflects on her grandparents and the aspects of Jewish culture and humor which they transmitted to her despite the difficulties of being Jewish in Soviet Ukraine.

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.