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.

Fyvush Finkel Remembers the Yiddish Theaters in Brownsville, Brooklyn

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Fyvush Finkel, z"l—comedian, actor, and singer—describes attending and performing in the Yiddish theaters as a child in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fyvush Finkel.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Fyvush Finkel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. Fyvush died in 2016.