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.

Fred Irving's Oral History

Fred Irving - WWII veteran and retired ambassador - was interviewed by Allie Brudney on February 16, 2012, at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Fred Irving was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1921. Fred died in 2016.