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 Memories of Rokhl Korn

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Betty Sorkowitz, daughter Yiddish activists and founders of the Sholem Aleichem Institute in Detroit, describes her interactions with Yiddish writer Rokhl Korn. She fondly remembers Korn, as someone unique, to whom she deeply related.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Betty Sorkowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Betty Sorkowitz was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.

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When Yiddishists Came to Visit Us in Detroit

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Chaim Grade: A Bombastic Character

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Anti-Semitism in Pre-War Poland: My Mother's Story about a Jewish Man at the Train Station

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