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.

Orthodox Observance and a Reform Bat Mitzvah

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Selma Gordon, a retired school aide, remembers her family's observance of kashrut at home, as well as the bat mitzvah ceremony she participated in at a local Reform synagogue.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Selma Gordon.

This excerpt is in English.

Selma Gordon was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1918.