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 World is Meshuga": Advice to Future Generations

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Philip Reinish, a former union organizer and member of the American Left, advises future generations of young Jews to be kind and to give back to others in spite of a crazy world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Philip Reinish.

This excerpt is in English.

Philip Reinish was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927.