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.
Mendl Mann and the Almost Nobel Prize
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Zvi Mann, son of Yiddish writer Mendl Mann, discusses how his father almost won a Nobel Prize, as corroborated by Nobel Prize laureate S. Y. Agnon.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Mann.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
