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.

I Knew Hirsh Glick: Memories of A Distant Relative, Writer, and Resistance Fighter in Vilna

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Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, remembers the Yiddish poet Hirsh Glick, who worked in his parents' shop before World War II.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Baruch Shoob.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.