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.

"Shlof Shlof, Mayn Kind": The Importance of (Jewish) Mothers

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Anna Sheldon, born to survivors of a prominent Warsaw Jewish family, gives a loving tribute to her mother and describes the central role she played in shaping Anna's Jewish identity.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Anna Sheldon.

This excerpt is in English.

Anna Sheldon was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935.

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Table for 59: Peysekh (Passover) Traditions

1 min 39 sec

My Mother Was A Quintessentially Jewish Cook

1 min 28 sec

"Even in Those Little Towns, We Have To Be Jewish": Transmitting Jewish Culture Down the Generations

3 min 1 sec

"I Never Let Them Get Away With It. Ever.:" Encountering Antisemitism

2 min 26 sec

Giving Jewishly: Charity and Jewish Identity

1 min 51 sec

Labor Zionism and Progressive Politics

1 min 48 sec

Growing Up in America as a Native Speaker of Yiddish

1 min 10 sec

Transmitting Values Within My Jewish Family

2 min 12 sec

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