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.
I Was at the "I Have a Dream Speech"
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Michael Katz, activist and grandson of Yiddish journalist Moishe Katz, describes his trip to Washington, during which he heard Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Michael Katz.
This excerpt is in English.
Michael Katz was born in Bronx, New York in 1955.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.