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.

Moyshe Katz Story

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Pauline Katz, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, recounts an amazing story about her great-grandfather, the famous Communist Yiddish journalist and writer, Moyshe Katz.

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

This excerpt is in English.

Pauline Katz was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1988.