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.
A "Providential" Encounter with a Yiddish Speaker in Ger (Góra Kalwaria), Poland
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Benny Ferdman, art teacher and Yiddish activist, relates how completely serendipitously he stumbled upon a Yiddish speaker in Ger (Góra Kalwaria), Poland.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Benny Ferdman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
Benny Ferdman was born in Sweden in 1952.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
