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 Grine Felder (Green Fields) Bungalow Colony

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Robert Feder, z"l—attorney, native Yiddish speaker, and longtime Yiddish Book Center member—describes being at the Grine Felder (Green Fields) Bungalow Colony. He talks about the Yiddish writers who stayed there and the atmosphere of Jewish culture in the 1940s.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Yiddish Songs My Mother Sang

1 min 24 sec

The Coops: A Leftist Jewish Neighborhood in the East Bronx

2 min 9 sec

Yiddish Brought Us Together: Community at the Green Fields Bungalow Colony in the 1940s

1 min 52 sec

What Yiddish and Lawyers Have in Common

1 min 32 sec

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