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.
Hebrew with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi: Two Stories
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Ruth Smith, docent at the Yiddish Book Center, recalls a missed opportunity to meet Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Ben-Zvi's insistence that her great-uncle change his name.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Smith.
This excerpt is in English.
Ruth Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940.
