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.
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Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber—daughter of Yiddish theater prompter and cousin of English-language novelist Bernard Malamud—remembers attending the Academy of Arts and Sciences Awards with her cousin, Bernie Malamud.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber.
This excerpt is in English.
Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1923.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
