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.
Chaim Grade: A Bombastic Character
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Betty Sorkowitz, daughter Yiddish activists and founders of the Sholem Aleichem Institute in Detroit, remembers her relationship with Chaim Grade and what a fascinating person he was.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Betty Sorkowitz.
This excerpt is in English.
Betty Sorkowitz was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.