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.

Dolph Klainberg's Oral History

Dolph Klainberg, retired social worker, was interviewed on December 3, 2012 by Lynn Yanis at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Dolph Klainberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Yiddish Life in Buenos Aires

1 min 56 sec

Social Justice As Taught In American Yiddish Schools

3 min 14 sec

My Father Read Sholem Aleichem to Keep us Laughing: The Boat Ride From Buenos Aires to New Orleans, 1947

2 min 34 sec

“Zog Nit Keyn Mol”: Dolph Sings the Partisan Hymn

1 min 25 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Yiddish print on yellow paper

1955 print

Yiddish playwriting

article clipping with Klainberg

Yiddish playwriting 2

article clipping 2

Yiddish playwriting 3

childhood photograph two boys

Yiddish playwriting 4

old photograph

Yiddish playwriting 5

volveremos

old photograph 2

handwriting on yellow paper

labor demonstration photograph

handwriting on yellow paper 2

Yiddish worker poster

handwriting on yellow paper 3

handwriting on yellow paper 4

Delta line ticket

Delta line ticket receipt

Bronx mittelshul concert program

Bronx mittelshul concert program 2

Yiddish playbill Bronx mittelshul

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