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.
On Assignment on the Hatikvah with the Haganah: Story Behind Shmuel Isban’s Yiddish Novel
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Ruth Zuckerbrod and Elliot Isban, children of Yiddish writer Shmuel Isban, explain how their father got an assignment to board and write about a ship carrying Jews to Palestine.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Zuckerbrod and Elliot Isban.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
