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.

Baruch Shoob's Oral History

Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on September 20, 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

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Video highlights from this oral history

I Knew Hirsh Glick: Memories of A Distant Relative, Writer, and Resistance Fighter in Vilna

3 min 7 sec

From Heder to Gymnasium: My Jewish Education in Vilna in the Interwar Period

6 min 34 sec

Memories of A Hasidic Synagogue in Vilna

3 min 7 sec

Antisemitism in the Forest: My Experience as a Jewish Partisan Outside of Vilna

4 min 7 sec

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