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.

The Influence of Sephardic Culture in Holland

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Gloria Fein - tour guide at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam - explains how Sephardic Jewish culture has left its mark on the history and language of Holland. She then tells the story of why the Sephardic synagogue is called the Portuguese Shul.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gloria Fein.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Gloria Fein was born in Münich, Germany in 1948.

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