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.

Father Was a Yiddish Prompter for Yiddish Plays

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Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber, daughter of Yiddish theater prompter and cousin of English-language novelist Bernard Malamud, discusses her father's career as a Yiddish theater prompter.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Jean Fidelman Kopelman Haber was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1923.