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.

Reading Yiddish and Translation of Poem "Ikh benk" by David Fram

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Hazel Frankel, writer, translator, artist and researcher in Yiddish at the University of Witwatersrand, reads poem "Ikh Benk" by South African Yiddish poet David Fram in English and Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hazel Frankel.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Hazel Frankel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1949.