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.

How Steinberg sense of humor helped her uncle survive the war while in the Russian Army

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Florence recounts how her uncle survived World War Two while serving in the Russian army, thanks to the Steinberg sense of humor. She remembers meeting him later in his life, after he had immigrated to North America.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Florence Schumacher.

This excerpt is in English.

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My father refused to attend my brother's bar mitzvah

2 min 10 sec

Escaping "Jewish Bubble" in College

2 min 54 sec

Winnepeg vs. U.S. Today: Jewish Culture, Education, and Assimilation

2 min 25 sec

"They didn't talk about the Old Country."

48 sec

Reconnecting with Lost Cousins from the "Old Country"

3 min 22 sec

How WWII and the Holocaust affected my family

1 min 53 sec

Jewish Values in the Family-- Cantorial Albums and Jewish Newspapers

2 min 1 sec

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