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.
"My brother was a character": Jews protecting Jews in Ethnically Mixed New York City Neighborhood
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Sue Ehrlich—New York native, Yiddish activist, and artist—discusses that although many different ethnic groups lived in her New York City community together mostly peacefully, when times got difficult for Jewish kids, her brother took matters into his own hands.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sue Ehrlich.
This excerpt is in English.
Sue Ehrlich was born in New York, New York in 1928.
