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.

A Jewish Soccer Team vs. Nazi-sympathizers

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Alvin Becker, a retired veterinarian, describes the day his uncles' all-Jewish soccer team took on the German-American Bund, which had been marching around Milwaukee with Nazi flags.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alvin Becker.

This excerpt is in English.

Alvin Becker was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1931.

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