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.

Not Just the Torah: The Wellsprings of Jewish Culture

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Ed Colker—artist, designer, and teacher—speaks about how Jewish culture does not only stem from the Torah, or from Jewish authors, but from the shtetls and the lives that of Jews.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ed Colker.

This excerpt is in English.

Ed Colker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927.