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.

Forgetting Russian En Route to a New Beginning

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Arje Shaw, z"l, playwright, describes his escape from the Soviet Union after the end of World War II, and his subsequent sudden inability to speak Russian anymore.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arje Shaw.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.