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.

"His Voice was Louder than the Actors": My Uncle was a Prompter in the Detroit Yiddish Theater

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Bernie Agranoff, scientist and professor at the University of Michigan, whose uncle was a Yiddish theater prompter in Detroit, tells stories about his uncle - a prompter in the Detroit Yiddish theater.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bernie Agranoff.

This excerpt is in English.

Bernie Agranoff was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926.