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 Yeshiva Was My Father's Gateway to the Secular World
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Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanatorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, discusses his father's yeshiva education in Vilna - specifically how this religious education enabled him to access secular subjects and radical political ideas.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Victor Gilinsky.
This excerpt is in English.
Victor Gilinsky was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.