Caroline Luce

Associate director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA

Associate director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA

Caroline Luce on KCRW

“In Boyle Heights, they built Yiddish schools, they built a Yiddish language press, they used Yiddish to organize workers and political parties.

For Jewish immigrants, Boyle Heights was a place for community building and a slice of the American dream

“In Boyle Heights, they built Yiddish schools, they built a Yiddish language press, they used Yiddish to organize workers and political parties.

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