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.

Trips to Eastern Europe and Jewish Identity

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Sara Klompus, singer and Yiddish enthusiast, reflects on her travels to Eastern Europe as integral in her relationship to her Jewish identity. She explains that experiencing the places and people that represent her ancestry - not just reading about them in a book - is integral in her understanding of her Jewish heritage and history.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sara Klompus.

This excerpt is in English.

Sara Klompus was born in Washington, D.C. in 1949.