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.

Dina Claire's Oral History

Dina Claire, singer who performed on Broadway and in the Borscht Belt, was interviewed by Ozzy Gold-Shapiro on October 9th, 2018, at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Dina Claire was born in Newark, NJ in 1933. Dina died in 2020.

Artifacts related to this oral history

TYN from Springfield Chapter of Hadassah

TYN from B'nai Birth Congregation

TYN from Cantor Moshe Weinberg

TYN from JCC of Greater Philadelphia

TYN from JCC of Wyoming Valley

Ad and TYN for Back to the Catskills

Ad for Dina Claire at the Indian Creek Room

List of Dina Claire Appearances

Note from Fountain Pointe Condominium

Note from Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms

TYN from Temple Beth Shalom

Cover of 1966-67 Carnegie Hall Program

Still from "Gypsy" Movie

Cover of 1962-63 Carnegie Hall Program

Program for "Alice in Easterland"

Cast Photo of "Alice in Easterland"

Program for "Hello, Solly!"

Ad for "Echoes of Israel"

Radio City Music Hall 1964 Program

Ad for "Hello, Solly!"

Dina Claire Resume

Photo of Dina Claire in "Alice in Easterland"

John Glenn and Dina Claire at the Alfalfa Club

Photo of Dina Claire in "Alice in Easterland"

Dina Claire Credits List

Dina Claire Headshot

Ad for "Back to the Catskills"

Dina Claire Headshot

Ad for Dina Claire as Alice in "Alice in Easterland"

Dina Claire Headshot

Dina Claire Ad by Co Mo Enterprises

Dina Claire in Christmas Costume for "Gypsy"

Ad for Myron Cohen, Dina Claire, and Mark London at the El Morocco

Dina Claire in Costume for Gypsy

Ad for the Dina Claire Show

Dina Claire Meeting Eleanor Roosevelt

Ad for the George Jessel Show

Dina Claire Performing at Electric City Playhouse

Brochure from the Alfalfa Club's 67th Anniversary Dinner

Dina Claire Performing for Eleanor Roosevelt

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