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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Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow—Yiddish actress and activist born in Bialystok, now living in Israel—was well-known as an artist in Poland, but not when she arrived in Israel.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
