Stories From The Stage: Finding out the meaning of a Hebrew name

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Szifra Birke’s parents were Holocaust survivors who came to the US from Poland. Birke was just a teenager when she discovered that her name was not what she had lived with until then. This story is about her journey of embracing her Hebrew name. 

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