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.
The 1950s: Leaving Brooklyn for the Suburbs
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Nora Gerard's family, like many Jewish families in the 1950s, moved out of the city for the suburbs.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Nora Gerard.
This excerpt is in English.
Nora Gerard was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952.
