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.

Jacob Apelberg's Oral History

Jacob Apelberg, Holocaust survivor and translator of Yiddish poetry, was interviewed by Martina Ravagnan on December 16, 2014 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Jacob Apelberg was born in Wasewo, Poland in 1932.

Artifacts related to this oral history