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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Elaine Trehub - retired Mount Holyoke College archivist - describes her time at college, her commute, dating, and friendships, before carefully analyzing her mixed feelings about her Jewish identity.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elaine Trehub.

This excerpt is in English.

Elaine Trehub was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1928. Elaine died in 2018.

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