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.
A Jew Had To Be a Good Person
Watch now:
August Maymudes remembers how his father felt a connection with the biblical prophets who went against leaders and tended to the needs of the people.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with August Maymudes.
This excerpt is in English.
August Maymudes was born in New York, New York in 1930.
