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 Chance Meeting in a Jewelry Shop in Switzerland
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Ed Colker—artist, designer, and teacher—remembers a brief chance encounter with a Jewish man who had escaped from Germany during World War II.
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.
