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.

He'd Go to Shul and then Buy a Newspaper

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Bella Bryks-Klein, Yiddish speaker and daughter of writer Rachmil Bryks, tells how her father was not particularly religious but felt it was important to know about religion.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bella Bryks-Klein.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Bella Bryks-Klein was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948.