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.

Lea Koenig-Stolper's Oral History

Lea Koenig-Stolper—Hebrew and Yiddish actress and Israel Prize recipient—was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 22, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Lea Koenig-Stolper was born in Lodz, Poland in 1929.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Yosef Kaman, A Great Yiddish Actor

1 min 14 sec

The Vilna Troupe

1 min 48 sec

Getting Started on the Stage: Lea Koenig-Stolper Reflects

8 min 44 sec

Remembering My Mother, Yiddish Actress Dinah Koenig

3 min 51 sec

Hebrew or Yiddish? Lea Koenig-Stolper on Starting An Acting Career in Israel

1 min 20 sec

Actress Lea Koenig-Stolper On the Yiddish Langauge

3 min 15 sec

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