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.

Growing Up on Bainbridge Avenue

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Itzik Gottesman - folklorist and former associate editor at the Forverts - remembers the Yiddish-speaking community and the Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul in his childhood neighborhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Itzik Gottesman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Itzik Gottesman was born in Bronx, New York in 1957.