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.
"The Characters Were My Family": Living with Yiddish Writer Chaver Paver in New York
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Ricki Greenblatt, former Camp Kinderland counselor and chorus singer, recalls living in the Bronx with her family and their boarder, Yiddish children's author Chaver Paver (Gershon Einbinder). Chaver Paver based the characters of his book "Labzik: Stories of a Clever Puppy" on her family and the family dog.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ricki Greenblatt.
This excerpt is in English.
Ricki Greenblatt was born in 1924.
