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