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.

How Malka Lee's Mother Saved Her Poetry Notebooks from Fire

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Yvette Marrin, daughter of Yiddish writers Malka Lee and Aaron Rappoport, tells the story of how her grandmother savedher mother's poetry notebooks from the fire.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yvette (Chave) Marrin.

This excerpt is in English.

Yvette (Chave) Marrin was born in Bronx, NY in 1937.