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.

"Anybody who left was a traitor."

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Ingrid discusses her love for New York and her criticism of the people who move away.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ingrid.

This excerpt is in English.

Ingrid was born in Echwege, Germany in 1929.