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.

Paul Mintus's Oral History

Paul Mintus, z"l, documentary filmmaker on Native American reservations, was interviewed by Nina Pick on August 6th, 2018, in Lenox, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Paul Mintus was born in 1943. Paul died in 2020.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"It Was Another World": My Mother's Love of Yiddish--and My Sense of Strangeness

1 min 3 sec

My Father's Involvement in the Communist Party

2 min

Life on the Reservation: Participating in Rituals with Native Americans

3 min 29 sec

How the Holocaust Informed My Sense of Jewishness

2 min 20 sec

Growth Through A Strong Identity and Simultaneous Curiosity About Other Cultures

1 min 27 sec

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