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.

Memories of the McCarthy Era

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Lyber Katz - z"l, progressive activist, Yiddish translator and son of Moishe Katz - remembers agents inquiring about his father as well as arriving at his work to investigate co-workers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lyber Katz.

This excerpt is in English.

Lyber Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1921. Lyber died in 2014.