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Ed Asner on His Father's Journey from Lithuania to Kansas City, Where He Started A Junkyard
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Ed Asner, American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, has a lot he wants to tell about his father, an observant Jewish junkyard man in Kansas City.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ed Asner.
This excerpt is in English.
Other video highlights from this oral history
Ed Asner on His Father's Journey from Lithuania to Kansas City, Where He Started A Junkyard
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My Parents Came To See Me Perform: Ed Asner as Rabbi Azriel in The Dybbuk
3 minutes 52 seconds
Ed Asner Tells Stories of His Cousins During World War II
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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