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.

Tova Weiss's Oral History

Tova Weiss, teacher and tour guide, was interviewed by Lynn Yanis on September 16, 2014 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

Tova Weiss was born in Slazburg, Austria in 1946.

Jump to map

Video highlights from this oral history

From a DP Camp Hospital to a Jewish Homeland: Settling in Haifa After World War II

2 min 20 sec

How My Parents Fell in Love in the Middle of World War Two

1 min 56 sec

"Amkho?": The Secret Code of Jewish Refugees

1 min 16 sec

"Az Men Shmirt, Fort Men": A Bribe for a Transit Visa

3 min 18 sec

"Shoyn Farshtanen!": Guiding A Yiddish Speaker Around Israel

1 min 56 sec

A Generation of Refugee Children

1 min 32 sec

My Father's Yiddish Folk Song Medleys

2 min 48 sec

Waiting for the Messiah to Take Him to Israel: My Grandfather's Anti-Zionist Orthodoxy

1 min 31 sec

"A Field of Bones": What I Knew of Linchitz, My Ancestral Home

1 min 6 sec

The Gift of Yiddish Wisdom

1 min 59 sec

Menachem Begin's Promise

1 min 51 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

fathers yiddish diary 2

fathers yiddish diary

israel bonds photo

portrait 100001

tova tour guide israel 2 photos

Identity Card

Identity Card front and back

1935 portrait front

Passenger Card

All I Got Was Words

DP camp birth certificate

DP camp hospital certificate

DP camp tova and mother

DP work certificate

family portrait

family portraits

Father's letter

More information about this oral history

Themes:

Listen later:

Download as an mp3 audio file for free

For other download options:

View the full Internet Archive record