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.

My Father, Yiddish Writer Mendl Mann

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Zvi Mann, Hebrew teacher, describes his father, Yiddish writer Mendl Mann along with his intense writing habits.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Mann.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.