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 "Runaway": My Mother's Journey To America At Age Sixteen
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, tells the story of his mother's journey to America at 16, and her first job: keeping the kerosene lamps on miners' helmets lit.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gerald Palevsky.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gerald Palevsky was born in Bronx, New York in 1926.