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 Meaning of "America Gonif"

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Robert Epstein muses about how the phrase "America Gonif" got its meaning.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Robert Epstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Robert Epstein was born in New York, New York in 1927.

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