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.

Murray Lubin's Oral History

Murray Lubin, former linotype operator and printer, was interviewed by Emma Morgenstern on July 13, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Murray Lubin was born in New York, New York in 1940.

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