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.

From Radical Zionism to Conservative Judaism

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Martha Ackelsberg - Professor of Government and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College - describes the way her parents' plans to emigrate to Israel changed as a result of the Second World War and their choice of Jewish identity in suburban New Jersey.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Martha Ackelsberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Martha Ackelsberg was born in New York, New York in 1946.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Early Years of a Jewish Feminist

1 min 32 sec

Camp Ramah: Being Able to Be a Whole Person

3 min 10 sec

My Neighbor, the Country Club

2 min 13 sec

Commitment to Israel and to Social Justice

1 min 46 sec

The Chavurah Movement Now and Then

4 min 25 sec

Becoming a Jewish Feminist

5 min

"Jewish Women Call For Change!"

5 min 13 sec

The Fragility of Progress: Reflections of a Jewish Feminist

3 min 36 sec

A "Mizmor L'Dovid" Melody Learned in Cordoba, Spain

1 min 35 sec

Rebuilding Jewish Life in Cordoba, Spain

6 min 55 sec

Sephardi Jews in Turkey

1 min 58 sec

Passover - A Time to Feel Fully Jewish

1 min 40 sec

In the Kitchen of the Passover Seder

3 min 9 sec

A Girl to Lead the High Holidays' Services

5 min

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