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 Identity Over a Lifetime

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Al Berkowitz discusses the ways his Jewish identity has developed since his childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Albert Berkowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Albert Berkowitz was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1921. Albert died in 2015.

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My Grandmother's Immigration

5 min 33 sec

"This was my way of giving back."

2 min 1 sec

Food Memories

3 min 21 sec

"When you're being pushed, push back."

2 min 16 sec

"Gettin' 'em back for ploesti."

1 min 19 sec

"I Still Remember Where I Was..." The 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor

1 min 11 sec

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