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 Jewish Refugee's Journey From Tashkent to New York City

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Arje Shaw, z"l, playwright, remembers his journey from Tashkent to a displaced persons camp in Germany to eventually building a new life in the Lower East Side.

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

This excerpt is in Yiddish.