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 I.L. Peretz School in Post-WWII Lodz
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Alex Dafner – Yiddish radio show host in Melbourne, Australia – talks about the I.L. Peretz School, which he attended as a child in Lodz as a child in the 1950s. He talks about it's formation, who attended, and what he learned while going there.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alex Dafner.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Alex Dafner was born in Lodz, Poland in 1949.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
