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.

Philip Reinish's Oral History

Philip Reinish, a former union organizer, was interviewed by Jessica Parker on March 13, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida.

This interview was conducted in English.

Philip Reinish was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"Everything I Did In My Life Was Because I Was Jewish."

2 min 13 sec

"The World is Meshuga": Advice to Future Generations

35 sec

Secular Yiddish Education on Long Island

2 min 19 sec

Finding Mentors and Myself: Getting Involved with Union Organizing and the Left

5 min 1 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Philip Reinish in 1945

Two Photographs

A Flower

At a Celebration

Labor College Certificate of Attendance

Letter to Izzy Reinish

Letter to Libby

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