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.
Skipping Christmas for KlezKamp
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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 - remembers taking his children to KlezKamp and arguing with his daughter over whether to get a Christmas tree.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.