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.

"I Certainly Felt in the Minority": Jewish Life in Amherst vs. New York

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Bina Addes, Wexler Oral Historian and child of Holocaust survivors, recounts the unexpected outsider status she experienced as Jew living in Amherst, particularly with regards to events being scheduled for the High Holidays and the unavailability of kosher-for-Passover food.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bina Addes.

This excerpt is in English.

Bina Addes was born in Germany in 1947.