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.
Leaving Poland: How My Parents Came to the United States
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Hy Eisman, American cartoonist who writes and draws the "Popeye" comic strip, tells the story of his parents’ lives in Poland and why they decided to come over to the United States.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hy Eisman.
This excerpt is in English.
