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.

"For a Jew You're Not Bad"

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Murray Lubin, printer, describes an experience of antisemitism as a teenager that changed him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Murray Lubin.

This excerpt is in English.

Murray Lubin was born in New York, New York in 1940.

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