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.

Bundism Inspired My Activism

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Arnold Zable—author, human rights activist and son of Yiddish-speaking immigrants—talks about the influence Bundism and Yiddish had on his life. He explains how this influenced his later career and activism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arnold Zable.

This excerpt is in English.

Arnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947.