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.

Mike Burstyn's Oral History

Mike Burstyn, actor and son of Yiddish actors Pesach'ke Burstein and Lillian Lux, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 28, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Mike Burstyn was born in Bronx, New York in 1945.