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.

Tikn Oylem (Tikkun Olam), Repairing the World at the Yiddish Book Center

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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, reflects on the importance of maintaining a connection to Yiddish language and culture, especially literature, because of what it can teach us.

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.