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.

Wearing a Kippah in Israel

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Paul Charette - convert to Judaism and member of the Jewish Community of Amherst - discusses his experience wearing a kippah while in Israel, and the unexpected political questions that ensued.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Easter at our house was very similar to a Passover Seder

40 sec

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

2 min 20 sec

Paul Charette is "too religious for 98% of the women on Jdate!"

49 sec

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