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 Literary Salons at Our House in Birobidzhan
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Sergo Bengelsdorf—musician, native of Birobidzhan, and son of the Yiddish poet Lyuba Vasserman—recalls the authors that frequented his childhood home.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sergo Bengelsdorf.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Sergo Bengelsdorf was born in Birobidzhan in 1937.
