- Mindle Crystel Gross, native speaker and translator, describes the Yizkor books which memorialize the Jewish communities which were destroyed in the Holocaust, and the insights they provide through translation.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Paul Azaroff, Hebrew and Judaic Studies teacher and native of New York City, remembers finding and living in The Young Guard Zionist organization. He describes the mischief and radicalism of the group, grounded in a central goal to rebuild the...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, talks about the ambivalence he had for his absentee father as a young man and his doubts before reuniting with him after twenty-five years.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, discusses his first few days in America, including his realization that his father had no time for him and the memory of how getting a job with Hashomer Hatzair helped break down the...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
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- David Slucki, professor of Jewish Studies at Austraila's Monash University, was interviewed by Jessica Parker on December 16, 2012 at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Chicago, Illinois.
2012-12-16
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Simon Dobjensky, engineer, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on March 29, 2017 in Albany, California.
2017-03-29
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Jozef Hen, Polish writer, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on July 22, 2016 in Warsaw, Poland.
2016-07-22
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Albert Stern, writer and editor, was interviewed by Nina Pick on October 31st, 2018, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
2018-10-31
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Henry Kellerman, psychotherapist and author, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 24, 2014 in New York, New York.
2014-10-24
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
