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.

Terry Herskovits's Oral History

Terry Herskovits, a 90-year old Jewish-Czech woman based in Boca Raton, FL, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 11, 2015 in Boca Raton, Florida.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Terry Herskovits was born in Kivjazd, Czechslovakia in 1924.