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.

A Song Learned from My Grandmother, Great Yiddish Actress Sara Adler

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Ellen Adler Oppenheim, daughter of actress Stella Adler and granddaughter of Yiddish actors Jacob and Sara Adler, remembers a song she learned from her grandmother Sara.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ellen Adler Oppenheim.

This excerpt is in English.