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.

Israel Gubkin's passion for teaching

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Ethel Taft remembers how her father, Yiddish writer Israel Gubkin. brought great passion to teaching the topics of literature, Bible, Zionism, and language.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ethel Taft.

This excerpt is in English.

Ethel Taft was born in New York, New York in 1931.