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.
Funny Things about My Last Name
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Sara Tepper, Yiddish speaker born in Poland, shares some funny stories regarding her last name. She talks about her father changing it when they came to America, meeting someone with a very similar but opposite last name, and how she used her last name for a school election slogan.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sara Tepper.
This excerpt is in English.
Sara Tepper was born in Kletsk, Russian Empire in 1922.