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.

The Jewish Labor Bund Improved My Parents' Lives in Poland

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Danielle Charak, Melbourne-based Yiddish activist, teacher, and former radio host, talks about Yiddish cultural life in Poland before World War II. Both of her parents grew up very poor and the local Bund gave them opportunities for a better life.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Danielle Charak.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Danielle Charak was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1939.