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.

Yosef Kaman, A Great Yiddish Actor

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Lea Koenig-Stolper—Hebrew and Yiddish actress and Israel Prize recipient—talks about her father, Yiddish actor Yosef Kaman. She describes his acting, his legacy and talks a little about Yiddish actors in general.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lea Koenig-Stolper.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Lea Koenig-Stolper was born in Lodz, Poland in 1929.

This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

The Vilna Troupe

1 min 48 sec

Getting Started on the Stage: Lea Koenig-Stolper Reflects

8 min 44 sec

Remembering My Mother, Yiddish Actress Dinah Koenig

3 min 51 sec

Hebrew or Yiddish? Lea Koenig-Stolper on Starting An Acting Career in Israel

1 min 20 sec

Actress Lea Koenig-Stolper On the Yiddish Langauge

3 min 15 sec

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