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.

Eli Bromberg's Oral History

Eli Broomberg, former Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student and TENT program participant, was interviewed by Saul Hankin on February 7, 2014 at the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Eli Bromberg was born in North Tarrytown, New York in 1980.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Is Yiddish Dead? Not A Question We Need To Waste Too Much Time Thinking About

1 min 54 sec

The Shooting and the Strike: Stories From My Great-Grandfathers Who Worked At The Forward Yiddish Newspaper

3 min 47 sec

The Rejection Letter: Abe Cahan Rejected Offer To Have My Great-Great-Uncle Shmuel Charney Write For The Forverts

2 min 7 sec

Is Yiddish Dead? Not A Question We Need To Waste Too Much Time Thinking About

2 min 44 sec

Letters From Ancestors

3 min 12 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Eli Bromberg-document-Letter from Abe Cahan rejecting Shmuel Niger as a writer for the Jewish Daily Forward

Eli Bromberg-photograph-great-grandfather Baruch in snowy weather

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