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.

The Vilna Troupe

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Lea Koenig-Stolper—Hebrew and Yiddish actress and Israel Prize recipient—discusses the Vilna Troupe. She describes it and its place in the Yiddish world as she sees it.

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

Yosef Kaman, A Great Yiddish Actor

1 min 14 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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