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.
A Mother's Broken Promise, An Uncle's Gambled Dowry, A Hat Full of Bullet Holes: The Beginning of My Parent's Marriage
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Sonia Pressman Fuentes, co-founder of the National Organization for Women, tells the torrential adventure of her parents' marriage - a winding tale full of lost affairs, broken promises, border-crossings, and almost-ends. It crosses the genres of a ghost story, a high-speed chase, and a romance.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sonia Pressman Fuentes.
This excerpt is in English.
