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.
Movies and Treats at the Yiddish Theater on the Lower East Side
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Herman Rotenberg, co-owner of Unusual Wedding Rings and More, remembers seeing Yiddish movie double features as a child. He describes the colorful Yiddish-speaking vendors selling ice cream and other goodies and the commonplace nature of Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Herman Rotenberg.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
Herman Rotenberg was born in Munich, Germany in 1947.
