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.

“It Was Nothing to Be Ashamed Of”: Growing Up During the Depression

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Gella Schweid Fishman, z"l, Yiddish teacher and activist, reflects on what it was like to grow up during the Great Depression.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gella Schweid Fishman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.