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.
Remembering My Mother, Yiddish Actress Dinah Koenig
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Lea Koenig-Stolper—Hebrew and Yiddish actress and Israel Prize recipient—talks about her mother, Dinah Koenig. She discusses her mother's acting, describes her and shares some of her mother's career advice.
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.
