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.

Sewing Dress for School Graduation

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Miriam Bienstock, z"l, co-founder of Atlantic Records, remembers what she used to learn in school as a girl, pointing out how in order to graduate, she had to sew her own dress.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Bienstock.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Bienstock was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. Miriam died in 2015.

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