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 Grandmother from Odessa Sang Me "Oyfn Pripetshik"

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Jory Miller, grandson of Yiddish actress Anna Beck, explains his grandmother's many connections to the Yiddish song she would sing to him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jory Miller.

This excerpt is in English.