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.

'I saw that little hat!': Family's Response to My Conversion

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Paul Charette remembers his 'Mother Mary Catholic' aunt's response to his conversion to Judaism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Charette.

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Charette was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1963.