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.

Martin Davis's Oral History

Martin Davis, who grew up in a Yiddish-English speaking home in New York, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on March 29, 2017 in Oakland, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Martin Davis was born in Bronx, New York in 1928. Martin died in 2023.