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.

Paul Buhle's Oral History

Paul Buhle, author and social historian, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 22, 2012 at his home in Madison, Wisconsin.

This interview was conducted in English.

Paul Buhle was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1944.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Oral History of the American Left

3 min 40 sec

The Question of Jewish Cultural Continuity

2 min 44 sec

A Lesson Learned through Interviewing Women Activists of the Left

1 min 39 sec

Yiddish Literature: It Is All Connected

2 min 12 sec

Poetry at Labor Strikes

1 min 34 sec

Baruch Rivkin's Ideas About Yiddish Sensibility

3 min 19 sec

What Comic Art Can Do: Creating “Yiddishkeit” Across Generations

6 min 57 sec

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