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.

Secular Yiddish Education on Long Island

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Philip Reinish, a former union organizer and member of the American Left, talks about the Yiddish cultural school he founded with other Leftist Jews to transmit Jewish heritage to their children.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Philip Reinish.

This excerpt is in English.

Philip Reinish was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927.

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"The World is Meshuga": Advice to Future Generations

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Finding Mentors and Myself: Getting Involved with Union Organizing and the Left

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"Everything I Did In My Life Was Because I Was Jewish."

2 min 13 sec

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