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.
A Coop in the Bronx
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Eugene Orenstein explains that his parents heard about a new cooperative in the Bronx and were the twenty-seventh family to join.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eugene Orenstein.
This excerpt is in English.
Eugene Orenstein was born in Bronx, New York in 1945.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
