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.
"The Boss Was Completely Incredulous": My Mother Organized a Strike at the Fur Factory
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Annette Libeskind Berkovits, Jewish author and former Senior Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society, describes her mother's difficult work after immigrating to the United States after WWII. She explains, too, how she ended up leading a revolt in a sweatshop.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Annette Berkovits.
This excerpt is in English.
Other video highlights from this oral history
"The Boss Was Completely Incredulous": My Mother Organized a Strike at the Fur Factory
2 minutes 9 seconds
My Father's Involvement with the Jewish Labor Bund and Imprisonment in Poland
3 minutes 46 seconds
My Father's Escape from Poland to the Soviet Union After the Nazi Invasion
5 minutes 20 seconds
Life in Kyrgyzstan and Journey Back to Post-WWII Poland
2 minutes 55 seconds
Description of Post-WWII Lodz
2 minutes 15 seconds
Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Poland
4 minutes 5 seconds
Experiences of Jewish Life in Post-WWII Poland, Israel, and the United States
3 minutes 27 seconds
"Needed Someone Who Knew Yiddish": My Father's Job in a Jewish Print Shop After Immigrating to the United States
2 minutes 34 seconds
Discovering My Father's Autobiographical Audio Tapes
4 minutes 15 seconds
How to Transmit a Sense of Jewish Identity?
3 minutes 29 seconds
How My Parents Ended Up in Soviet Gulags and Then in Kyrgyzstan
3 minutes 48 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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