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.

20 Years as President of the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia

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Alex Dafner—Yiddish radio show host in Melbourne, Australia—reflects on what has changed at the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library during his twenty-year tenure as president and afterwards.

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.