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.
My Aunt Alice's Poetry
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Lilly Gaev, psychotherapist and child of Holocaust survivors, speaks about her aunt Alice Tarshish's Yiddish poetry and a time she translated it for a Passover seder with her children.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lilly Gaev.
This excerpt is in English.
Lilly Gaev was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.