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.

His Grandma's Devotion

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Harvey Horn, former POW in World War II, remembers how his grandmother would react when he ate non-Kosher food, and visiting her in the balcony of the shul.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harvey Horn.

This excerpt is in English.

Harvey Horn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923.

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"My father was a socialist, my uncle was like a patriarch of old"

1 min 30 sec

Connections Between People

1 min 30 sec

Bragin: "I got a flavor for the world my father lived in"

2 min 28 sec

My Experience Being a Jewish POW in World War II

11 min 2 sec

Meeting a German Major

2 min 16 sec

Seeing the Statue of Liberty After the War

2 min 6 sec

Borough Park in the 1930s

1 min 28 sec

Baseball on the High Holy Days

50 sec

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