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.

Remembering Antisemitism in Montreal and Nazi Germany

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Irving Massey - son of Yiddish writer and organizer Ida Maze - describes an antisemitic movement in Montreal and his childhood fears of Naziism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Irving Joseph Massey.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Irving Joseph Massey was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1924.