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.
My Bat Mitzvah at Fifty: One Step On a Long Journey of Healing
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Eva Brown, child survivor and trauma psychologist, describes the process and reasoning behind her bat mitzvah at the age of fifty.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eva Metzger Brown.
This excerpt is in English.
Eva Metzger Brown was born in Fuerth, Germany.
Other video highlights from this oral history
My Bat Mitzvah at Fifty: One Step On a Long Journey of Healing
3 minutes 24 seconds
Breaking the Silence of Trauma
1 minute 29 seconds
Fleeing, Hiding, And, Finally, A Family Reunited: WWII in France
2 minutes 43 seconds
My Parents' Community In America After Escaping Nazi Germany
3 minutes 11 seconds
How My Mother's Temper Tantrum Got Us Into America
1 minute 48 seconds
Remembering Hitler's Rise to Power
1 minute 41 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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