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.

"I Wasn't Gonna Do a Comedy Routine": Filming The Quarrel in Jewish Dialects

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Saul Rubinek, actor, tells the story of his experience on the set of the film, The Quarrel. A dispute arose between Rubinek and the director over the proper Jewish accent to use for his character, and Rubinek insisted on using the one he knew was accurate from his childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Saul Rubinek.

This excerpt is in English.

Saul Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany in 1948.