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.

The Endless Room: My Early Memories Of Being Raised By My Grandparents

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Marina Vaysberg, reference librarian at the College of Saint Rose, reads a selection from her book describing the single room in Kyiv that she shared with her grandparents as a young girl.

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.