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 Beginning of Yale Strom's Ethnographic Career: An Old Age Home in Zagreb

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Yale Strom, musical performer, artist, and ethnographic collector of Yiddish music, talks about his first trip to Europe and relying on the kindness of strangers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yale (Yitskhok) Strom.

This excerpt is in English.