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.

A Life in Service

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Rita Licht Rosenthal, a retired social worker, talks about finding her way to her career in social work despite (and because-of) gender-prejudiced setbacks.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rita Licht Rosenthal.

This excerpt is in English.

Rita Licht Rosenthal was born in Bronx, New York in 1930.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Life in the Bathgate Ave. Bronx Neighborhood During the Depression

2 min 45 sec

Three Weeks of the Same Lesson: Tutoring with the rebetsn (Rabbi's wife)

1 min 24 sec

"Hebreyish, Hebreyish": A Father's Naches (Pride) in His Daughter's Hebrew Skills

2 min 10 sec

Yiddish in Venice and Paris

2 min 9 sec

Organizing Jewish Community in the "Wilderness" of Suffolk County

4 min 30 sec

Same Classes, Different Degree: Sexism at College

1 min 15 sec

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