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.
Growing up on Fox Street
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Jacob Schlitt - New York City-born native Yiddish speaker and social justice activist - fondly remembers growing up in the Bronx, in what some consider the worst section of the neighborhood, Fox street.
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.
