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.

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

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Robert Feder, z"l—attorney, native Yiddish speaker, and longtime Yiddish Book Center member—discusses how Yiddish and awareness of Nazi aggression in Europe brought the Grine felder (Green Fields) bungalow colony together as a community.

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

The Grine Felder (Green Fields) Bungalow Colony

4 min 27 sec

What Yiddish and Lawyers Have in Common

1 min 32 sec

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