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.

Norman Lear Fondly Remembers His Bubbie Lizzie

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Norman Lear, television writer and producer, fondly describes his paternal grandmother, "Bubbie Lizzie," with whom he lived for a while as a child.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Norman Lear.

This excerpt is in English.