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.
"Not the Hands of a Maid": How My Grandmother Ended Up in South Africa
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Zvi Jankelowitz, Director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, tells the story of how his grandmother was rebuffed at the Canadian border, so had to go to South Africa instead.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Jankelowitz.
This excerpt is in English.
Zvi Jankelowitz was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1956.
