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.
Early Connections and Associations with Jewish Identity
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Roger Mason, musician who grew up Protestant, describes his and his family's experiences with and awareness of antisemitism, and discusses his mother's self-consciousness about her curly hair.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Roger Mason.
This excerpt is in English.
Roger Mason was born in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1944.