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.
My Mother's Reaction when Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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Mark Gerstein, z"l - former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer - recalls how his mother expressed a fear that Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, was Jewish. He speculates that this fear originated from her concern about anti-Semitism.
See more on how Mark's political identity was shaped by the period of history in which he grew up: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/video/1960s-formed-my-ideology-mark-ge…
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mark Gerstein.
This excerpt is in English.
Mark Gerstein was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1949. Mark died in 2013.