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.

A Non-Jewish Woman Singing Yiddish in Israel

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Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, accordion player and singer of Jewish music, explains how people reacted to her Yiddish performances in Israel.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk.

This excerpt is in English.