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.
My Father Meier Zabludowski and His Yiddish Poetry
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Arnold Zable—author, human rights activist and son of Yiddish-speaking immigrants—talks about his father Meier Zabludowski’s love of poetry. He shares memories of his father writing, reading and performing poetry. He recites two poems of his father’s, including one written on the day his father died.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arnold Zable.
This excerpt is in English.
Arnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
