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.
"Ver Bin Ikh (Who Am I)?": Arje Shaw on Feeling Like an Outsider in America
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Arje Shaw, z"l, Broadway playwright, describes how his struggle to understand his identity as an American and as a Jewish immigrant has informed his life and his work.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arje Shaw.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.