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.
Back to the Old Country To Find A Husband
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Mark Wolraich, pediatrician, recalls how his mother, an idealistic young Socialist, ran away to the Soviet Union as a young woman and there was reunited with her cousin and future husband.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mark Wolraich.
This excerpt is in English.
Mark Wolraich was born in Bronx, New York in 1945.
