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 Captive Audience: Private Readings With Solomon Simon

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David Simon and Miriam Forman, son and daughter of Yiddish author and Jewish educator Solomon Simon, reminisce about their father's tendency to demand an audience for his works-in-progress from any person that would listen to him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Forman and David Simon.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Forman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936. Miriam died in 2019.

David Simon was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924.