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.

Multilingual and Full of Actors: Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow Remembers Her Childhood Home

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Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow—Yiddish actress and activist born in Bialystok, now living in Israel—describes what her home was like growing up and the languages her family spoke.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1925. Shura died in 2020.