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.

How the Holocaust Informed My Sense of Jewishness

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Paul Mintus, z"l, documentary filmmaker on Native American reservations, considers how growing up during, and knowing of the Holocaust changed the way he understood his sense of identity.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Mintus.

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Mintus was born in 1943. Paul died in 2020.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Growth Through A Strong Identity and Simultaneous Curiosity About Other Cultures

1 min 27 sec

"It Was Another World": My Mother's Love of Yiddish--and My Sense of Strangeness

1 min 3 sec

My Father's Involvement in the Communist Party

2 min

Life on the Reservation: Participating in Rituals with Native Americans

3 min 29 sec

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