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.
Activism Over A Lifetime
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Jacob Schlitt - New York City-born native Yiddish speaker and social justice activist - explains that he has pursued social justice since he was a young boy, collecting for the Spanish loyalists. He remembers protesting for better treatment of Soviet Jews and his organizing for the civil rights march on Washington in 1963.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jacob Schlitt.
This excerpt is in English.
Jacob Schlitt was born in Bronx, New York in 1927. Jacob died in 2018.
