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.
"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
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Vladimiro Rosenberg, surgeon, describes his childhood years spent helping with the work on the farm, running around with horses, and speaking Yiddish. He then explains his elementary education and shows documents from his Spanish and Yiddish schools.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vladimiro Rosenberg.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
