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.

Meeting her Husband

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Elaine Katz describes how she met her husband while in college. She remembers walking into Hillel, hearing partisan music, and meeting six soldiers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elaine Katz.

This excerpt is in English.

Elaine Katz was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1926. Elaine died in 2015.