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.

$75 from Marseille to Haifa:Fighting Sholem Asch on the Way to Israel

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Paul Azaroff, Hebrew and Judaic Studies teacher and native of New York City, recalls his first trip to Israel, made even more memorable by the presence of two celebrities onboard.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Azaroff.

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Azaroff was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934.