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.

Being Called To Testify as a Member of the Communist Party

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August Maymudes remembers being called to testify before congress in 1960 and having the FBI tell his boss to fire him, since he had joined the Communist Party two years earlier.

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.