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.

Oral History of the American Left

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Paul Buhle, author and social historian, describes how his Oral History of the American Left project brought him into contact with Yiddish speakers.

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

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Buhle was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1944.

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This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

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The Question of Jewish Cultural Continuity

2 min 44 sec

A Lesson Learned through Interviewing Women Activists of the Left

1 min 39 sec

Yiddish Literature: It Is All Connected

2 min 12 sec

Poetry at Labor Strikes

1 min 34 sec

Baruch Rivkin's Ideas About Yiddish Sensibility

3 min 19 sec

What Comic Art Can Do: Creating “Yiddishkeit” Across Generations

6 min 57 sec

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