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.

"Have You Ever Seen a Tennis Match?": Teenage Jozef Hen's First Editorial Critique from Igor Newerly

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Jozef Hen, Polish Jewish writer, describes his first conversation with Igor Newerly (Jerzy Abramow). Teenage Jozef Hen submitted his short story about tennis to a contest in a children's newspaper called "Maly Przeglad [The Little Review]".

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

This excerpt is in Polish.