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.

"Needed Someone Who Knew Yiddish": My Father's Job in a Jewish Print Shop After Immigrating to the United States

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Annette Libeskind Berkovits, Jewish author and former Senior Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society, describes her father's job at a print shop owned by a Yiddish-speaking rabbi.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Annette Berkovits.

This excerpt is in English.