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.

"Before Wolosfky, a Settlement; After Wolofsky, a Community": My Grandfather Founded The Keneder Adler (Canadian Eagle), Montreal's Yiddish Newspaper

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Jack Wolofsky, co-founder of KlezKanada, describes how his grandfather's newspaper, the Keneder Adler (The Canadian Eagle), functioned as a means of community-building for Montréal's Jews in the first half of the 20th century.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jack Wolofsky.

This excerpt is in English.

Jack Wolofsky was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1931.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.