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.

Alex Dafner's Yiddish Radio Program

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Alex Dafner—Yiddish radio show host in Melbourne, Australia—talks about his Yiddish-language radio program, explaining how it started and how it has changed over the years.

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.