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.

Laundry in an East Bronx Kitchen

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Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, describes his childhood apartment, a fourth-floor walk-up in the East Bronx, where he lived with his parents and brother.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Howard Nenner.

This excerpt is in English.

Howard Nenner was born in Bronx, New York in 1935.