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 Memory of Young Love and Dancing at the 9 de Julio (July 9) Celebration in the Jewish Agricultural Colony of Rivera, Argentina

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Vladimiro Rosenberg, surgeon, describes his boyish love for Shelita, the daughter of the director of the Spanish-language school of Rivera, Argentina; and how that love took a (literal) turn on the Argentine Day of Independence.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vladimiro Rosenberg.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Other video highlights from this oral history

When My Mother Became Our Shoykhet

1 min 39 sec

"When I First Went to School, I Didn't Speak Any Spanish": My Poor but Happy Childhood in the Argentine Jewish Agricultural Colony of Rivera

2 min 26 sec

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