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.

Bathtubs and A Love Child: A Colorful Jewish Family History

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Dorothy Goldstone, a writer and Yiddish Book Center volunteer, shares fascinating snippets of her family history, including anecdotes about sleeping in bathtubs in New York, an Argentinean sex worker, and a grandmother who promised to "knock the Yiddish accent out" of her husband!

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dorothy Goldstone.

This excerpt is in English.

Dorothy Goldstone was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948.