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.

From Girl's Latin School to Yidishe Shule: An American, Jewish Education in Boston

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Gloria Weiner Weiss, z"l, former Yiddish child actress on the radio and stage, remembers her American Jewish education in Boston, and how Jewish girls at Girls Latin school were sometimes alienated.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gloria Weiner Weiss.

This excerpt is in English.

Gloria Weiner Weiss was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1926. Gloria Weiner died in 2020.