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.

You Can't Transmit Concern For Not Having A Jewish Homeland When There Is One

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Diana Cohen, a social worker, discusses her efforts to transmit Jewish and Zionist values to her children and the degree to which Israel's formation affected this process of transmission.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Diana Cohen.

This excerpt is in English.

Diana Cohen was born in Bronx, New York in 1927.