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.

Longing for a Jewish Friend: Growing Up as a Jewish-American Girl Among American Soldiers Stationed in Germany in the 1950s

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Hilary Salk, activist and author, relates how reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a young girl inspired her to start keeping a diary in which she wrote to Anne, reflecting her deep longing for Jewish community.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hilary Salk.

This excerpt is in English.

Hilary Salk was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1942.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

Running for Governor of Rhode Island on the Citizen's Party Ticket

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My Father Learned How to be American at Yale

3 min 16 sec

The Oberammergau Passion Play from the Perspective of a Jewish-American Child

7 min 8 sec

Finding My Jewish Home at the Brown University Hillel as a Parent

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