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.

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Helen Yelen - wife, mother, grandmother, and friend - describes how she met her future husband and the activities they would do together as teenagers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Helen Yelen.

This excerpt is in English.

Helen Yelen was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. Helen died in 2015.

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Becoming Secular

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Anti-War Activism

1 min 32 sec

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Sings "Afn Pripetshik"

1 min 31 sec

Seventeen Cousins on Each Side

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Spirited Aunt Frieda

2 min 38 sec

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