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.

Jack Wolofsky's Oral History

Jack Wolofsky, co-founder of KlezKanada and grandson of Yiddish newspaper founder Hirsch Wolofsky, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 22, 2013 at KlezKanada in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada.

This interview was conducted in English.

Jack Wolofsky was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1931.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"In der Heym": Home Was Still Russia to My Grandparents After They Moved to Montreal

5 min 36 sec

The Keneder Adler and Imperial Tobacco

2 min 38 sec

"Before Wolosfky, a Settlement; After Wolofsky, a Community": My Grandfather Founded The Keneder Adler (Canadian Eagle), Montreal's Yiddish Newspaper

5 min 48 sec

The First Jewish Army in Two Thousand Years

2 min 34 sec

Singing Yiddish Folks Lider (Folk Songs) at Home

1 min 21 sec

Mischief at the Keneder Adler (Canadian Eagle) Yiddish Newspaper

3 min 49 sec

The Strike: Students Organizing Against Antisemitism in Montreal

4 min 37 sec

Authors at the Office of the Keneder Adler (Canadian Eagle) Yiddish Newspaper

3 min 28 sec

Rediscovering the Story of a Drowned Aunt

8 min 5 sec

The Birth of KlezKanada

3 min 26 sec

Speak From Your Roots: On Culture, Heritage, and Making Life Meaningful

4 min 43 sec

Where? Why? What Does it Mean?: The Depth of Itzik Manger's Poetry

4 min 39 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Keneder Adler offices

Montreal Yiddish book cover

Parents wedding location

Hirsch Wolofsky

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