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.

Meeting My Wife Dancing in Amish Country

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Jack Apfelbaum, engineer, recalls the two trips it took before he and his wife became serious: first in Amish country in Pennsylvania then at a lake retreat in Connecticut.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jack Apfelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Jack Apfelbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1928. Jack died in 2018.