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.

"We Realized How Important Yiddish Was": Fundraising for the IWO Shules

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Henry Kellerman, psychotherapist and author, recalls his fundraising efforts for the International Workers' Order (IWO) shules (schools) and a particularly rousing speech that he delivered to a room full of uninterested, centrist Jews to convince them to donate money.

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

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.