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.

"It was very, very tragic": Yiddish play about Tsarist Army Conscription

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Sue Ehrlich—New York native, Yiddish activist, and artist—recalls a particularly memorable Ludwig Satz play she attended at the Yiddish theater as a child.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sue Ehrlich.

This excerpt is in English.

Sue Ehrlich was born in New York, New York in 1928.

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