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.
Becoming a Poster Child for Secular Yiddishism
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Henry Kellerman, psychotherapist and author, discusses the beginnings of his shule education and how he soon became a young orator, reciting poetry and prose for Yiddish cultural events and representing secular Yiddish culture's greatest hopes and dreams for the future.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Henry Kellerman.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
