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.

Starting the Progressive Jewish Student Union at UC Santa Cruz

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Tony Michels, professor of American Jewish history, describes the founding and political leanings of the Progressive Jewish Student Union at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Tony Michels.

This excerpt is in English.