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.
Grandfather Did Not See Father for Thirty Years
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August Maymudes describes how his grandfather threw his father out of the house for breaking the Sabbath. The two did not see each other for several decades, when August's father introduced him to his grandfather.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with August Maymudes.
This excerpt is in English.
August Maymudes was born in New York, New York in 1930.
