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.

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Having kept kosher his entire life, William Robin - temple administrator and WWII veteran - recalls his first traif (non kosher) meal during his time in the army.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

A Lot of Yiddish In My Home

2 min 33 sec

The Reform Synagogue from an Orthodox Perspective

1 min 8 sec

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

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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