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.

An End-Of-Life Reconciliation on Yom Kippur

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Lester Thomas Shane, son of Yiddish actor Sam Shane, reflects on his relationship with his father.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lester Thomas Shane.

This excerpt is in English.

Lester Thomas Shane was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.