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.

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Harold Edelstein, retired chemist, reminisces his childhood of the 1940s in Brooklyn, and his horizon-broadening adventures with friend Mark Raven.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harold Edelstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Harold Edelstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938.