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.
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, relates the story of how his mother became involved in the union movement, and the strike that got her sent to prison.
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.