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.

Yiddish Writer Aaron B. Rappaport's Childhood in Upstate New York

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Yvette (Chave) Marrin, daughter of Yiddish writers Malka Lee and Aaron Rappoport, describes her father's childhood in a rural setting in upstate New York.

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.