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.
Edith Schwarz on Visiting Kadia Molodowsky's Book-filled Apartment in New York
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Edith Schwarz, niece of Yiddish poet Kadia Molodowsky, describes her family visits to Kadia and her husband Simcha's small, book-filled apartment in New York, and their outings to Coney Island.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Edith Schwarz.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.