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.
"You really did feel that things were going to get better."
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Frances Morrill Schlitt reflects on political activism in the 1960s, from picket lines to Jewish intellectuals and the civil rights movement. Today, she sees new problems for the following generations to sort through.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Frances Morrill Schlitt.
This excerpt is in English.
Frances Morrill Schlitt was born in Auburn, Maine in 1935. Frances Morrill died in 2020.
