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.

On The Spot, He Decided to Marry Her Six Children and All

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Debra Caplan, Ph.D. candidate in Yiddish, tells one of the stories passed down through her family about her great-grandmother, Sophie, whose beauty won her a husband upon her arrival to the United States.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Debra Caplan.

This excerpt is in English.

Debra Caplan was born in North Wales, Pennsylvania in 1985.