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.

Diana Bregman Feld's Oral History

Diana Bregman Feld, daughter of Yiddish poet Edith Kaplan Bregman, was interviewed by Lesley Yalen on July 19, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Diana Bregman Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Es benkt zikh

2 min 36 sec

She Was a Bohemian

2 min 14 sec

My Mother's Poetry

1 min 58 sec

"My Poems": A Poem by Edith Kaplan Bregman Read By Her Daughter

1 min 14 sec

My Mother's Childhood

2 min 56 sec

Collecting Money for the Jewish National Fund

1 min 31 sec

Publishing Her Mother's Writing

1 min 20 sec

My Grandmother, a Midwife and a Comedian

1 min 51 sec

Studying in Israel in 1949

3 min 5 sec

"He Was a Prince of a Man"

1 min 55 sec

Encounters with Anti-Yiddish Attitudes in Early State of Israel

1 min 30 sec

"Otherwise I Might Have Been a Sabra"

1 min 4 sec

The Family Almost Made Aliyah

1 min 57 sec

Arlo Guthrie's Grandmother

1 min 40 sec

The Little White Goat

1 min 25 sec

"At Home and at Peace"

1 min 9 sec

Yidishe Bikher (Yiddish Books): A Poem about the Yiddish Book Center

1 min 32 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Edith and Aaron

Yiddish Poems by Yehudis Edith young

Edith and family photo

Edith and Maude's picture

Edith at Maude's

My Poems poem

Edith b and w poem cover

My Poem in Yiddish

Edith old

From my memories poem

Edith young

English critique of reisin

Es benkt sikh

From my memories poem

family photos

portraits

my poems in yiddish

photocopy

telekhany full page

Bregman family full page

Edith Kaplan Bregman portrait

Photograph of Edith

Yiddish Poems by Yehudis cover

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