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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Lois Graber reflects on hearing Yiddish at the Catskills, and how the exposure to Yiddish may have been a major reason her children remained Jewish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lois Graber.

This excerpt is in English.

Lois Graber was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938.