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.
Being and Becoming an American
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Eleanor Rothfeld, born in Lvov and raised in the United States, discusses her parents' attitude towards being American and her complicated road to American citizenship. Eleanor's parents fled to Mexico after World War I, and immigrated illegally to the United States, a fact they kept from their children for years.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eleanor Rothfeld.
This excerpt is in English.
