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.

"No More Religious, But A Lot More Jewish": How My First Trip To Israel Changed My Jewish Identity

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Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, talks about going to the Western Wall for the first time, and his epiphany about his identity as a Jew.

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.