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.

Micha Brym's Oral History

Micha Brym, engineer and Yiddish enthusiast who was born in Russia and grew up France, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 24, 2016 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Micha Brym was born in 1942.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Daily Life for My Parents in Pre-War Poland

3 min 16 sec

An Extraordinary Partisan Song

1 min 40 sec

Convenient Uses for Yiddish

2 min 37 sec

This Magic and Reality of Jewish Storytelling: Interviewing My Mother About Her Life

3 min 42 sec

She Believed in God Because of Destiny: On My Mother's Religious Practice and My Bar Mitzvah

2 min 22 sec

Thinking of Yiddish While Teaching in Venezuela

7 min 35 sec

The Magical House Mother Named Her Son After Me: Fond Memories of Living in a Children's Home in Nice, France

4 min 14 sec

My Earliest Memories of the Soviet Union during World War Two

2 min 35 sec

Appearance as a Child in Maître après Dieu: Louis Daquin's Film about Illegal Immigration of Jewish Refugees to the US

3 min 10 sec

My Family and Other Villagers' Experience During World War Two

4 min 23 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Micha Portrait, 1971

Micha Mirror Portrait

Women Sewing on Machines on a Porch

Andja at the Cemetery

Annette with Sewing Machine

Annette During Recording 1971

Annette Recording 1

Annette During Recording on Couch with Equipment Beside Her 1971

Annette Recording 2

Annette and Faye

Annette Recording 3

Annette and baby Moon

AR788_3766-Micha Brym-Annette Recording 4

Annette in Wiszogrod August, 1961

Aron and Micha on a Bicycle

Micha at his Bar Mitzvah

Aron, Ita, Anja, Esther, and Micha

Friends Sitting on a Log in the Woods

Wedding or Engagement of Chana & Kalman

Micha and Annette

Micha and Moon

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