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.

"Homecoming Trip" to Jewish Cooperative Community

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Penina Glazer enthusiastically details her visit to the co-op community where she spent a part of her childhood growing up, from the "hitching corner" to the white cinder block Bauhaus buildings. She remembers what it was like to grow up in a small, intimate, immigrant community.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Penina Migdal Glazer.

This excerpt is in English.

Penina Migdal Glazer was born in Roosevelt, New jersey in 1939.