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.

My Father's Story of Meeting I.L. Peretz at 10 Years Old

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Bernard Witlieb tells his father's story about meeting I. L. Peretz at 10 years old, as part of a prize for translating Russian and Polish works in Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bernard Witlieb.