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.

He Believed in Revolution: My Grandfather, the Communist Party Leader

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Marina Vaysberg, reference librarian at the College of Saint Rose, talks about her grandfather's commitment to the Communist Party, from his efforts to wage class warfare against wealthier peasants in the 1920s to his service in the Red Army and subsequent imprisonment in a Soviet gulag.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marina Vaysberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Marina Vaysberg was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1962.