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.

Visiting Israel in Early Years

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Miriam Bienstock, z"l, co-founder of Atlantic Records, recalls a visit to Israel - walking by a group of people building a pipe at the side of the sea, which she found out was the beginning of what would later become the city of Ashdod.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Bienstock.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Bienstock was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. Miriam died in 2015.

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