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 Poetry of Y. Y. Segal
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Sylvia Lustgarten, daughter of Yiddish writer Y. Y. Segal, discusses her father's poetry, which often reflected the struggles he faced in life, including the death of his first daughter at only eight years old.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Lustgarten.
This excerpt is in English.
Sylvia Lustgarten was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1926.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
