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.
Attitudes toward the Galut (Diaspora) Among Young Israelis in the 1940s and 50s
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Izzy Feldman, Israeli-American IT specialist, speaks about Israeli attitudes towards Europe (known as Galut, "Exile") during his childhood. The identity of "galuti" with weakness and subordination was strengthened in the wake of World War II, when young Israelis felt ashamed by the inability of European Jews to resist the Holocaust.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Israel (Izzy) Feldman.
This excerpt is in English.
Israel (Izzy) Feldman was born in Cernăuți, Romania in 1931. Israel (Izzy) died in 2017.
