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.
“If a Catholic, Could a Jew be far Behind?”: On John F. Kennedy’s Election
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Ruth Smith, docent at the Yiddish Book Center, describes her thoughts during John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Presidential Election, and her grandparents' passion for political engagement.
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.
