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.

My Relationship With My Grandfather Jacob Glatstein

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Geoffrey Gladstone, grandson of Yiddish writer Jacob Glatstein, discusses his wishes for his relationship with his late grandfather.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Geoffrey Gladstone.

This excerpt is in English.

Geoffrey Gladstone was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1951.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.


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