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.

The Intellectual Colleagues of Shmuel Isban

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Ruth Zuckerbrod and Elliot Isban, children of Yiddish writer Shmuel Isban, talk about how their father would have intellectual colleagues who would get together at Cafe Royal.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Zuckerbrod and Elliot Isban.

This excerpt is in English.