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.

Milly Guberman Kravetz's Oral History

Milly Guberman Kravetz, Boston native and social worker, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 12, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Milly Guberman Kravetz was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1922.

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Video highlights from this oral history

He Was The Only One In His Family Who Came Over… He Never Went Back: My Father's Immigration Story

1 min 59 sec

Learning About Eugene Debs And Socialism at Camp

2 min 29 sec

A Flavor That You Just Simply Can't Describe: Untranslatable Yiddish Words

2 min

Going With My Father To The Yidish Kultur Klub (Yiddish Culture Club) On Sundays In Dorchester

2 min 31 sec

I Have To Be Involved In The World: Why I Appreciate Being Jewish

2 min 44 sec

Abie's Irish Rose And Maurice Schwartz: Remembering How Yiddish Theatre Dealt With Issues of Modern Jewish LIfe

2 min 54 sec

Avuka Zionist Organization

3 min 51 sec

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