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.

Israel Zamir Recalls Living in the Soviet Union

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Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, remembers his time spent in the Soviet Union as a young boy and speaks about the censorship which eventually forced him and his mother to leave.

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.