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.
You Have To Have A Reason: A Lesson From My Father On Saying No To A Bar-Mitsve (Bar Mitzvah)
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, relates the story of the bar-mitsve (bar mitzvah) he never had.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gerald Palevsky.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gerald Palevsky was born in Bronx, New York in 1926.