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.

He Really Wanted His Cream Cheese and Lox

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Debra Caplan, Ph.D. candidate in Yiddish, recalls the time her father spent living on a Kibbutz in Israel and then his failed business in Yiddish film.

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.