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.

The First Jewish Army in Two Thousand Years

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Jack Wolofsky, co-founder of KlezKanada, recalls his father's stories about serving in the Jewish Legion during World War I: "the first Jewish army in two thousand years to fight for a state in Palestine."

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.