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.

Father's Separation from Hasidism

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Helen Stambler Latner, z"l, New York City high school English teacher, advice columnist for the Jewish Week, discusses her father's Orthodox background and shares his reasons for moving away from Orthodoxy and Hasidism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Helen Stambler Latner.

This excerpt is in English.

Helen Stambler Latner was born in New York, New York in 1918. Helen died in 2016.