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.

Sylvia Fuchs's Oral History

Sylvia Fuchs, an Amherst resident born in Harlem, NY in 1914, was interviewed by Lynn Yanis on October 25, 2013 in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Sylvia Fuchs was born in Harlem, New York in 1914. Sylvia died in 2017.

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Video highlights from this oral history

If He Said It Was Red, I Said It Was Blue

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Only God Is Perfect- And We Shouldn't Complain About Every Damn Thing

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Write It In Blood, Put It In My Envelope

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A 2-Pound Chicken

2 min 31 sec

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