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.

Pogroms And Jewish Resistance In The "Two-Blink Shtetl" of Yaruga

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Henry Kellerman, psychotherapist and author, shares his father's memories of the periodic antisemitic violence, as well as retaliation by the Jewish community, which defined life in his Ukrainian shtetl.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Henry Kellerman.

This excerpt is in English.