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.

A Yiddish Love Song I Used to Sing for My Wife

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Menashe Rotberg—Holocaust survivor from Lodz, now living in Israel—is prompted by his daughter, Tova Halperin, to sing a song that he used to sing with his wife.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Menashe (Moniek Moritz) Rotberg.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.