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.

Naomi Says "God of Abraham"

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Poet and translator Murray Citron reads "Naomi Says 'God of Abraham,'" his translation of Itzik Manger's "Nomi zogt got fun avrom."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Murray Citron.

This excerpt is in English.

Murray Citron was born in New York in 1928.