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.

Jewish History in Unexpected Places

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Penina Glazer has learned about Jewish history through street signs in Israel, father, and the Forverts.

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.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

Developing Jewish Identity: From Culture to Language

3 min 51 sec

My Zionist Grandfather's Story of Becoming Shoykhet

2 min 11 sec

"Homecoming Trip" to Jewish Cooperative Community

5 min 43 sec

Meeting Judy Blume After Years Since High School

3 min 16 sec

Beginnings of My Involvement with the Yiddish Book Center

5 min 14 sec

1950s, Roosevelt: NJ Jewish Cooperative Community

2 min 25 sec

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