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.

A Sense of Collective Jewish Insecurity

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Allen Katz, former student at the Yiddish Folkshul of the Wynnefield neighborhood of West Philadelphia, speaks to Jewish insecurities caused by antisemitism around the world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Allen Katz.

This excerpt is in English.

Allen Katz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935.