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.

Bernie Arfin's Oral History

Bernie Arfin, native Yiddish speaker from New York, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on August 24th, 2019 in Palo Alto, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Bernie Arfin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1924.