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.
She Paid His Passage and Sponsored Him Herself, Against Her Family’s Wishes: My Parents’ Story
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Betty Sorkowitz, daughter Yiddish activists and founders of the Sholem Aleichem Institute in Detroit, tells the story of how her parents immigrated to Detroit.
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.
