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.

A Lot of Yiddish In My Home

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William Robin - temple administrator and WWII veteran - describes the Jewish aspects of his home, including keeping kosher, his grandfather's orthodoxy, and the large amount of Yiddish in his house.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with William Robin.

This excerpt is in English.

William Robin was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1922. William died in 2021.

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Memories from A Providence, RI Kheyder (Cheder)

2 min 3 sec

We Would Run Through the Irish Neighborhood

2 min 41 sec

Listening In On Conversations Of New Immigrants From Russia

1 min 52 sec

Orthodox Shul

1 min 11 sec

The Jew and Non-Jew

1 min 48 sec

Ham and Cheese Sandwich

1 min 55 sec

Being A Jew in the Army

2 min 59 sec

Food Memories

3 min 34 sec

No Dairy for Peysakh, Just Matzoh and Schmaltz

2 min 2 sec

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