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 Shared Experience: Singing Yiddish with Japanese-Americans in California
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Ed Colker—artist, designer, and teacher—remembers a Sunday brunch he attended with a Japanese-American from the 1950s.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
