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.

"The Country Mouse Going to the City"

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Alice Ahart explains what it felt like to move from Ontario to Detroit, Michigan with her whole family in 1946.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alice Ahart.

This excerpt is in English.

Alice Ahart was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1932. Alice died in 2021.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

Mother Bear Project

1 min 56 sec

A Sunday Afternoon with Forverts

2 min 36 sec

The Resuscitation of Yiddish

1 min 13 sec

A Carp in the Bathtub

1 min 25 sec

Getting to "Di Goldene Medine" (The Golden Land)

3 min 1 sec

Outings with the Landsleit

3 min 40 sec

A Tip-Toe Recipe for Sponge Cake

1 min 46 sec

Yiddish Getting Lost in the Melting Pot of Canadian and American Schools

1 min 52 sec

"Hop! Mayne Homentashn" A Yiddish Purim Song

1 min 31 sec

Sitting Below in the Synagogue

1 min 7 sec

Bat Mitzvah as an Adult

2 min 18 sec

Jews in Tennessee

1 min 10 sec

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