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.
God Didn't Save Them: Why My Mother was Anti-Religious
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Michael Zylberman, current president of the Jewish Labor Bund in Melbourne, talks a bit about his childhood home and explains how the home had a "split-personality" on religion. He tells an upsetting story about his mother trying to save heder students during the Holocaust and how that influenced her anti-religious opinion.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Michael Zylberman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Michael Zylberman was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955.
