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.

SPHAS: The South Philadelphia Hebrew Association Basketball Team

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David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, talks about the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, a group of Jewish students from South Philadelphia High School who together formed one the most winning basketball teams in America.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Berg.

This excerpt is in English.

David Berg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.