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 Thought They Crossed the Atlantic on a Rowboat: How My Parents Came to the US
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Hy Eisman, American cartoonist who writes and draws the "Popeye" comic strip, tells the story of his parents’ crossing the Rio Grande to the United States on a rowboat.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hy Eisman.
This excerpt is in English.
