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.

Jack Apfelbaum's Oral History

Jack Apfelbaum, engineer, was interviewed by Sandra Rubin on December 2, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Jack Apfelbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1928. Jack died in 2018.