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 Fish Out of Water: A Strained Relationship With The Jewish Community

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Elaine Trehub - retired Mount Holyoke College archivist - explains her mixed feelings about the Jewish Community of Amherst, a community she was very much a part of, but felt excluded from while raising a child with disabilities.

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.