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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.

Sylvia Lustgarten and Annette Zakuta's Oral History

Sylvia Lustgarten and Annette Zakuta, daughters of Yiddish writer Y. Y. Segal, were interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 8, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This interview was conducted in English.

Sylvia Lustgarten was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1926.

Annette Zakuta was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1929.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Y. Y. Segal: A Poet with Two Lives

3 min 54 sec

The Importance of The Montreal Jewish Public Library

2 min 34 sec

"What Did Your Father Have for Dessert on Yom Kippur?": Secular Life in Montreal

4 min 48 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Photo of Y. Y. Segal

Y. Y. Segal and Shifke at 3 or 4

Group Photo-Melech Ravitch, Ida Maze, visitor, Rachel Korn, and Y. Y. Segal

Y. Y. Segal, wife Elke, Annette [L], Sylvia [R] in Montreal, 1935

Family Photo of Annette and Sylvia's mother with Brother's Daughter

Graphic Portrait Painting of Y. Y. Segal

Parents Wedding Photo 1915

Elke Segal, Y. Y. Segal's wife, Annette and Sylvia's Mother

Aunt Esther with Unknown Woman, Possibly Also a Yiddish Writer

Book Dedication to Y. Y. Segal from Iosif Berman 1949

Family Portrait-Y. Y. Segal, his mother Shifke, his sisters Esther and Pearl

Y. Y. Segal Bust.

Y. Y. Segal Portrait in Profile

Painting of Y. Y. Segal

Fundraiser of Book Publishing Celebration Group Photo-Dora Wasserman, Peretz Hirschbein, Peretz Markish

Painting of a Woman

Y. Y. Segal, Yaakov Glotshtein, and Ms. Mizel

Annette and Sylvia Young Seated on a Rock

Y. Y. Segal portrait taken by Teddy Gold

Y. Y. Segal at Kaiserman's Grave-the head of Canadian Jewish Congress

Annette and Sylvia Young in Dresses

Y. Y. Segal portrait taken by Teddy Gold Up Close

Y.Y. Segal and Hannah Litvak,

Y. Y. Segal Walking with Annette and Sylvia

Portrait of Little Girls, Y. Y. Segal's first child who died [R] and Henya Coortz [L]

Baby Picture of Charna

Y. Y. Segal Group Photo with Other Writers

Staff of the Kenedler Adler with an Important Guest

Y. Y. Segal, Annette and Sylvia's Mother, and Two Others

Photo of Chaim Crool, Poet

Portrait of Annette & Sylvia's Mother

Trio of Women, one is Malchalee, photo sent to Y. Y. Segal

Y. Y. Segal Identification, Nationality Canadian Jew

Esther Segal, the Poet, Mending One of Sylvia's Dresses

Y. Y. Segal and Annette at Annette's McGill Graduation

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