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.

Doug Ratner's Oral History

Doug Ratner, entrepreneur and Yiddish speaker, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 7, 2017 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

Doug Ratner was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1987.

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Artifacts related to this oral history

Doug Ratner Photograph - Violin Gift to Cynthia Smith

Doug Ratner Photograph - Family Photo in front of house

Doug Ratner Photograph - Trio, sepia

Doug Ratner Photograph - Abram Lerman in 1936

Doug Ratner Photograph - Group Photo, 1936, taken after Abram Lerman left for Palestine

Doug Ratner Photograph - Lerman-Markman Family photo, Romania, 1936

Doug Ratner Photograph - Family photo, 1934

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