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.

"The 'Yiddish Hour' Is In The Air!"

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Alvin Becker, a retired veterinarian, remembers listening to Yiddish-language radio show "Di Yidishe Shtunde" with his family as a child.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alvin Becker.

This excerpt is in English.

Alvin Becker was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1931.

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