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.

Stories from the Road: A Jewish Dancer's 1930s European Tour

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Naomi Leaf Halpern – Jewish dancer and centenarian – talks about her performance tour of Europe. She talks about where she went and how she put everything together.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Noami Leaf Halpern.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Noami Leaf Halpern was born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1914.

This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.

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Dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies

1 min 44 sec

The Beauty of a Jewish Life

1 min 18 sec

Choreographing and Performing Dances about the Women of the Tanakh

1 min 30 sec

Find What Makes You Feel Good to Be Alive: Advice from a Centenarian

1 min 10 sec

Losing the Gefilte Fish

1 min 15 sec

"They Knew A War Was Coming": Zionism At Home and Leaving Palestine Before World War Two

1 min 29 sec

It was Heaven: Camp Kinderwelt

1 min 40 sec

Dancing in Maurice Schwartz's Last Play

1 min 29 sec

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