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.
A Cuban Engineer and Former Revolutionary Reflects on His Jewish Roots
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José Altshuler, Cuban engineer of Jewish origin, discusses his Jewish family background and the difficulty of reading his aunt's diary that she wrote while in a concentration camp.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with José Altshuler.
This excerpt is in Spanish.
José Altshuler was born in Milena del Sur, Cuba in 1929.