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.
Saving coins in order to go to the Synagogue on the Indian Mainland
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Ilene Gelbaum describes the journey from Sri Lanka to the Indian mainland to visit a Synagogue.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilene Gelbaum.
This excerpt is in English.
Ilene Gelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.