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.

We Made God In Our Image: Connecting with Texts Through Yiddish

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Moishe Dolman - political organizer and frequent visitor to the Montreal Jewish Public Library - discusses poet Jacob Glatstein's idea that "we made God in our image," recites the beginning of Genesis in Yiddish, and reflects on how this idea affected his view of religion.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moishe Dolman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Moishe Dolman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1952.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Making Sandwiches for Picket Lines: Social Justice and Jewish Values

1 min 40 sec

Growing Up With Native Speakers of "Jewish" (Yiddish) in Montreal

1 min 15 sec

Zionism, Conversion, or Yiddish: Negotiating Jewish Identities

3 min 14 sec

Remembering Yiddish Lectures at the Montreal Jewish Public Library

2 min 5 sec

Yiddish Is How I Express Myself to Myself

1 min 22 sec

The Future of Yiddish: Are We Laughing With Yiddish Or Laughing At Yiddish?

3 min 53 sec

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