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.

"Looking Out For Your Fellow Man": Yiddish Writer Meyer Krawetz' Leftist Politics

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Cara De Silva, daughter of Yiddish writer Meyer Krawetz, discusses her father's leftist politics and activities as an organizer and later a manager with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Cara De Silva.

This excerpt is in English.

Cara De Silva was born in New York.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Jewish Corn Rye Bread

2 min 58 sec

Intellectualism and the Jewish Proletariat

3 min 24 sec

In Memory's Kitchen: Saving the Culinary Legacies of the Women of Terezín (Theresienstadt)

3 min 44 sec

One-on-One Time with My Father, Yiddish Writer Mayer Krawetz

2 min 21 sec

Embracing My Writerly Heritage: Cara De Silva and Meyer Krawetz

2 min 16 sec

Wonders From My Grandmother's Kitchen

3 min 27 sec

A Wonderfully Odd Couple: Mementos from My Parents' Marriage

1 min 26 sec

Little Black Book: My Father Mayer Krawetz' Writing Quirks

3 min 42 sec

"I Wish I Could Have Known My Father As a Grown-Up": On Yiddish Writer Meyer Krawetz' Personality

2 min 3 sec

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