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.

Remembering Yiddish Radio and Newspapers

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Helen Kurzban, Brooklyn-born native Yiddish speaker and former administrator in the New York City public schools, remembers how a Yiddish radio program offered advice to its listeners and how fathers placed notices in the newspaper advertising the availability of their unmarried daughters.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Helen Kurzban.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Helen Kurzban was born in New York, New York in 1930.