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 Parents Came To See Me Perform: Ed Asner as Rabbi Azriel in The Dybbuk

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Ed Asner, American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, describes the first performance his parents attended of himself playing Rabbi Azriel in S. Ansky's The Dybbuk.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ed Asner.

This excerpt is in English.