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.

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

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Philip Reinish, a former union organizer and member of the American Left, talks about getting involved with his first union and getting to know prominent labor organizers and activists, such as members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

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.