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.

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Jim Hoberman - Village Voice film critic and author of seminal book Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between the Two World Wars - describes his education and upbringing in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jim Hoberman.

This excerpt is in English.

Jim Hoberman was born in New York, New York in 1949.