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 didn't want to start my Israeli career in prison"

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Boris Rubinstein remembers his arrival for a post high school year in Israel.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Boris Rubinstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Boris Rubinstein was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1945.