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.
Wynnefield and West Philadelphia
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Allen Katz, former student at the Yiddish Folkshul in the Wynnefield neighborhood of West Philadelphia, shares his memories of growing up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.
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.