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.
The Coops: A Leftist Jewish Neighborhood in the East Bronx
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Robert Feder, z"l—attorney, native Yiddish speaker, and longtime Yiddish Book Center member—describes his childhood neighborhood in the East Bronx. He specifically discusses the cultural center of the neighborhood: the cooperative housing that had been organized by Jewish leftists.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Robert Feder.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Robert Feder was born in New York, New York in 1930. Robert died in 2017.
