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.
All in the Same Economic Boat: Growing Up In Ethnically Diverse NY Public School System of the '30s and '40s
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, remembers his experiences in the New York City public school system in the 1930s and 40s, and the ways the ethnic and racial demographics of the city were reflected in the classroom.
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.