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.
Why are so many Jews liberal?
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Jacob Schlitt - New York City-born native Yiddish speaker and social justice activist - considers why most Jews tend to vote left of center, deciding that there is indeed a pattern but it is not necessarily a result of religious upbringing.
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.
