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They Have to Know We Don't Have Horns: Living in a Not-Very-Jewish Neighborhood
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Rena Trefman Cobrinik, writer and educator, discusses neighbors and anti-Semitism. She reminisces about meeting people who still believe Jews have horns, and stories she'd been told by Jewish friends.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rena Trefman Cobrinik.
This excerpt is in English.
Rena Trefman Cobrinik was born in 1933 in Bronx, New York.
Other video highlights from this oral history
They Have to Know We Don't Have Horns: Living in a Not-Very-Jewish Neighborhood
1 minute 41 seconds
"Emotionally, It Has Never Left Me": Impact of the Holocaust
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Dancing in the Streets: Celebrating the Founding of the State of Israel
1 minute 16 seconds
Kvelling Over the Kinder's Yiddish
2 minutes 36 seconds
"Right-On-The-Nose Kind of Language": Yiddish Being Used in Major English Newspapers
1 minute 19 seconds
What's a Mentsch?: Transmitting Jewish Values through A Yiddish Word
1 minute 40 seconds
Yiddishe Shule, Not Hebrew School
1 minute 46 seconds
Memories of Yiddish LIterature and Song at Shule
1 minute 31 seconds
Language-Learning Through Song
2 minutes 16 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
Themes in this oral history excerpt:
- Rena Trefman Cobrinik
- America
- United States
- Anti-Semitism
- Jewish community
- Rural
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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