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.
Military Veteran Professor Confronted for Being a Communist: Surviving the McCarthy Era
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Melvin Meister, z"l, retired biomedical engineer, remembers his time spent as part of the Communist party as a young man and the troubles it caused him later in life, and in his career.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Melvin Meister.
This excerpt is in English.
Melvin Meister was born in Boston, MA in 1928. Melvin died in 2019.
