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.

Elena Sarashevskaya's Oral History

Elena Sarashevskaya, Yiddish translator, and journalist at the Birobidzhaner shtern, born and raised in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on July 28, 2017 at YIVO in New York City.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Elena Sarashevskaya was born in Khingansk, Jewish Autonomous Region, Russia.