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.
"He Meant Nothing To Me”: Israel Zamir Reflects On 20 Years Apart from His Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, talks about the ambivalence he had for his absentee father as a young man and his doubts before reuniting with him after twenty-five years.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Israel Zamir.
This excerpt is in English.
Israel Zamir was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. Israel died in 2014.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
