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.
Melbourne Yiddish Youth Theatre
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Doodie Ringelblum, medical doctor and Yiddish activist based in Melbourne, explains the establishment and development of the Melbourne Yiddish Youth Theatre, of which he was an active member.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Doodie Ringelblum.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Doodie Ringelblum was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1963.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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