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.

"Anybody Needed A Hand, They Got It": Memories of My Father

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Mildred Berman, New York native and active volunteer worker, tells funny and inspiring anecdotes when her father built a shul for the Young Israel chapter in Massachusetts, exemplifying her parents' undying commitment to Jewish communities in America.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mildred Berman.

This excerpt is in English.

Mildred Berman was born in New York, New York in 1927.

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