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.
"Shik Mir a Shtral (Send Me a Ray of Sunshine)": Memories of Yiddish Songs After Liberation and Earlier
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Sidney Zoltak, who survived the Holocaust as a child, talks about learning songs from his grandmothers and in the Dispanced Persons camps. He sings "Shik Mir a Stral", a song he learned after World War II.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sidney Zoltak.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
