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.

Jack Lewin's Oral History

Jack Lewin, Yiddish poet and actor based in Los Angeles, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Jack Lewin was born in Lodz, Poland in 1928.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Reading To Forget the Hunger in the Ghetto

3 min 14 sec

"My Kind of Kehile (Community)!": Secular Jewish Life in Melbourne

3 min 8 sec

"When Children Start Playing in the Street in Yiddish, Yiddish Will Live"

2 min 3 sec

He Was a Volcano On Stage: Remembering Director Sigmund Turkow

4 min 47 sec

Memories of the Industrial City of Lodz

1 min 31 sec

No Sewage, but a Great Library: Memories of the Industrial City of Lodz

1 min 31 sec

Mathematics Was Taught in Yiddish Until Fifth Grade: The Medem School in Lodz

3 min 11 sec

We Slept on Straw: A Jewish Home in Pre-War Lodz

3 min 9 sec

Celebrating Passover for the First Time in the Lodz Ghetto

2 min 37 sec

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