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.

Remembering Yankl Blank, Teacher At Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) Yiddish School

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Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - remembers his Yiddish teacher at Workmen's Circle, who often grew frustrated because his students were not interested in learning.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul (Hershl) Glasser.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Paul (Hershl) Glasser was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957.