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.

Filming Invincible, A Film about Jewish Folk Hero Zishe Breitbart

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Gary Bart, Great-nephew of Jewish strongman Zishe (Sigmund) Breitbart, describes some of his experiences filming "Invincible," including being in the old synagogue of a small town in Latvia and filming at a wharf in Holland in the exact spot that Jews had been killed by Nazis.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gary Bart.

This excerpt is in English.