Alter Esselin: Craftsman of Wood and Words (DVD) Short FILM Tote Bag their stories of survival during

their stories of survival during the Holocaust

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Alter Esselin: Craftsman of Wood and Words (DVD) Short FILM Tote Bag their stories of survival duringA short film from the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Alter Esselin: Craftsman of Wood and Words is an eighteen minute short film that features recordings of Esselin reciting some of his work as well as reflections from the late Joe (Yosl) Esselin, zl, a Chicago based playwright and Alter Esselins son and translator. Alter Esselin, a carpenter and Yiddish poet, was born Orkeh Serebrenik in the small town of Tchernigov, Russia.