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.
The writings of Yiddish essayist and poet Israel Gubkin
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Ethel Taft recounts the types of works written by her father Israel Gubkin, a Yiddish essayist, poet, and teacher.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ethel Taft.
This excerpt is in English.
Ethel Taft was born in New York, New York in 1931.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
