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.

Alex Dafner's Oral History

Alex Dafner, Yiddish radio show host and producer and former president of Kadimah in Melbourne, Australia, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 13, 2017, in Melbourne, Australia.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Alex Dafner was born in Lodz, Poland in 1949.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Memories of My Childhood in Lodz after World War II

6 min 35 sec

The I.L. Peretz School in Post-WWII Lodz

4 min 15 sec

History of Yiddish Radio in Melbourne

5 min 42 sec

Alex Dafner's Yiddish Radio Program

3 min 49 sec

20 Years as President of the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia

7 min 37 sec

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