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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Raphael Roginski, musician and activist, describes the Frankfurt in which he spent his early childhood: a strange city populated by wild cast of characters and characterized by constant change.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Raphael Roginski.

This excerpt is in English.