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.

"He Needed It": the Content of Mendl Mann's Writing vs. Visual Art

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Zvi Mann, Hebrew teacher, discusses how the peaceful content of his father Mendl Mann's painting and drawing was in stark contrast to his father's writing, which was quite dark in theme.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Mann.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

A Yiddish Writer Helping to Catch Nazis: Mendl Mann's Military Service in the Red Army, as an Aid to the U.S. Army, and in the Israeli Army

1 min 44 sec

Growing Up in Berlin After World War II

1 min 26 sec

My Father, Yiddish Writer Mendl Mann

2 min 38 sec

Mendl Mann and the Almost Nobel Prize

1 min 16 sec

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