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.
1915: My Father's Involvement in New Jewish Organizations Supporting Those In the 'Old Country'
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Robert Potash, historian, remembers the People's Relief Committee, the socialist relief organization his father worked for following the devastation of European Jews brought on by World War I.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Robert A. Potash.
This excerpt is in English.
Robert A. Potash was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1921. Robert A. died in 2016.
