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.
"Nobody Would Hire You If You Were Jewish": Boy's Clubs' "connections" in New York City during the 1940s
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Sue Ehrlich—New York native, Yiddish activist, and artist—describes the difficulty her brothers faced as young Jewish men in the job market at the start of World War Two.
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.
