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.
Probes And Zitsungen
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Joe (Yossl) Tigl – son of Yiddish actor Shia Tigl – remembers his father, Shia Tigl, constantly going to "probes (rehearsals)" and "zitsungen (meetings)" for the Yiddish theater in Melbourne.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joe (Yossl) Tigl.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
Joe (Yossl) Tigl was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1960.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
