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.
Dancing, Weeping and Carrying the Torah
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Zeva Greendale Roschko, educator and activist, speaks about attending a Simchas Torah celebration with the man who would become her second husband, and how this experience made her realize the richness of the tradition that had been denied to her as a child by her staunch atheist family. For Zeva, seeing young people interested in Yiddish is also a manner of "carrying the Torah."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zeva Greendale Roschko.
This excerpt is in English.
Zeva Greendale Roschko was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. Zeva died in 2020.
