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.

Jacó (Yankl) Guinsburg's Oral History

Jacó (Yankl) Guinsburg, writer and translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 29th, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Jacó (Yankl) Guinsburg was born in Rishkov Bessarabia in 1921. Jacó (Yankl) died in 2018.