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.
Lena (Leyka) Jedwab-Rozenberg and Szulim Rozenberg's Oral History
Lena (Leyka) Jedwab-Rozenberg and Szulim Rozenberg were interviewed in October 1987 in Paradise Valley, AZ by Lena's cousin Aubrey Palestrant while the couple was visiting the U.S. Translation by Dorothée Rozenberg. Subtitles by Christa P. Whitney. Posted with permission of Lena and Szulim's daughter, Dorothée Rozenberg.
This interview was conducted in Yiddish.
Lena (Leyka) Jedwab-Rozenberg was born in Bialystok in 1924. Lena (Leyka) died in 2005.
Szulim Rozenberg was born in Warsaw in 1918. Szulim died in 2015.
