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.

Jewish Missions to Cuba

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David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, relates how he became involved in religious missions to Cuba's Jewish communities, initially with the social action group Jewish Solidarity. Later, he became involved on his own, bringing aid to Cuba's Jews in the form of food, medicine, and a Torah.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Sloviter.

This excerpt is in English.

David Sloviter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.