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.
How My Grandparents, Samuel B. and Fannie Grossman, Came to Love the Yiddish Theater
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Rick Grossman, actor and part of a Yiddish theater family, talks about how his grandparents, Samuel B. and Fannie Grossman, came to find Yiddish theater. He explains how his grandmother's influence gave his grandfather a love of playwriting.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rick Grossman.
This excerpt is in English.
Rick Grossman was born in New York, New York in 1948.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.