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.

Korczak's Pedagogical Failure, at a Movie Theater

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Jozef Hen, Polish Jewish writer, describes the only encounter he had with the famous Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Józef Hen.

This excerpt is in Polish.