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.

Betty Sorkowitz's Oral History

Betty Sorkowitz, daughter of Yiddish activists and founders of the Sholem Aleichem Institute in Detroit, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 28, 2016 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

This interview was conducted in English.

Betty Sorkowitz was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.