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 (Fishl) Kutner's Oral History

Philip (Fishl) Kutner, founder of "Der Bay" a website for Yiddish networking information, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 9, 2016 in San Mateo, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Philip (Fishl) Kutner was born in 1926.

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Video highlights from this oral history

A "Pork and Beans Soldier" with a Kosher Kitchen: How My Parents Got Married

From Melons to Mafia: Adventures Working for the Railroad

"I Never Forgot that Experience": Paying for Rutgers University through A Hodgepodge of Part-time Jobs

"It Was a Total Disaster": The Chicken Farm Flood of 1955

"Ergern Nisht (Don't Worry)": Learning Yiddish by Ear

The Founding of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs

"What Do You Know About Jewish Storytelling?": Reconnecting with Yiddish in Jonesboro, Tennessee

"My Dad Wanted to be a Cowboy": Philip Kutner's Normal Jewish Childhood

Restoring the Workmen's Circle History

Spreading Yiddish Through "Der Bay"

"What Kind of Person is a Mentsh?": Preserving the Yiddish Language

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