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.

After School at the Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul

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Selma Gordon, a retired school aide, relates her memories of attending the Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul in Jewish Harlem in the 1920s.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Selma Gordon.

This excerpt is in English.

Selma Gordon was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1918.

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The Death and Resurrection of Yiddish

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