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.

"An Encounter with a Completely Different Culture": Formative Experience at the Peretz school in Montreal

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Jack Kugelmass, anthropologist and director of Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, recalls the influence of his time spent in the I.L. Peretz (Yiddish) school during his childhood in Montreal. He discusses the importance of their unique pedagogy in developing his current interests.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jack Kugelmass.

This excerpt is in English.

Jack Kugelmass was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1950.