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.
A Gut Feeling Against Intermarriage
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Izzy Feldman, Israeli-American IT specialist, speaks about the attitudes towards intermarriage that he inherited from his family, who would hypothetically sit shiva (mourning after a family member has died) if one of the children married a non-Jew, and passed on to his children. It may not be rational, he explains, but after a history of oppression and violence, Jewish continuity is a main concern for him.
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.
