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.

Bundism, Judaism, and the Modern World in Melbourne, Australia

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Joe (Yossl) Tigl – son of Yiddish actor Shia Tigl – reflects on where the Jewish life, the Bund, and Bundist organizations, have a place in the modern world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joe (Yossl) Tigl.

This excerpt is in English.

Joe (Yossl) Tigl was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1960.