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 Berg's Oral History

Paul Berg, Yiddish activist and medical lawyer, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 26, 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This interview was conducted in English.

Paul Berg was born in New York, New York in 1935.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Mother and Grandmother Lived in the Lithuanian Forest Before Coming to America

1 min 21 sec

My Grandmother Over-Worshiped Food

2 min 21 sec

I Can't Pay You Unless I Have Scissors: How My Grandmother Supported My Success in America

2 min 17 sec

My Stint as a Yiddish Actor

1 min 49 sec

Yiddish: The Essence of Jewishness

2 min 33 sec

My Tie to the Past: Yiddish

1 min 9 sec

Yiddish and Israel: It's Not Conflictual To Me

2 min 30 sec

It Makes Me Understand That I'm Not Safe: The Legacy of the Holocaust

1 min 55 sec

The Spirit of Yiddish in Young People

2 min 32 sec

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