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.

"It Was As Simple As Breathing the Air": The Yiddish Community in Montreal

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Aron Gonshor - actor in the Montreal Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and surgeon - describes the flourishing Jewish community of Montreal which he grew up in.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Aron Gonshor.

This excerpt is in English.

Aron Gonshor was born in Poland in 1947.