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.

Getting Chased By Shlomo Nudelberg After Hebrew School

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Rhoda Weiner, Yiddish speaker and active volunteer worker, shares a story of being chased home after Hebrew school by Shlomo Nudelberg, who she ran into decades later in Florida.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rhoda Weiner.

This excerpt is in English.

Rhoda Weiner was born in New York, New York in 1937.

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