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.

Childhood Adventures

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Arthur Klein, z"l - Brooklyn-born Navy veteran, retired hairdresser and former Yiddish Book Center docent - talks about how he would entertain himself as a kid, including by sneaking into the theater and making skateboards.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arthur Klein.

This excerpt is in English.

Arthur Klein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. Arthur died in 2014.