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.
On Honesty and Survival After the Holocaust
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Itzik Gottesman - folklorist and associate editor at the Forverts - reflects on a life lesson his mother impressed on him - and how he reinterpreted it.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Itzik Gottesman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Itzik Gottesman was born in Bronx, New York in 1957.
Other video highlights from this oral history
On Honesty and Survival After the Holocaust
2 minutes 15 seconds
Growing Up on Bainbridge Avenue
1 minute 24 seconds
The Philosophy of Camp Boiberik, A Yiddish-Inspired Apolitical Summer Camp
3 minutes 35 seconds
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's Art and Writing
2 minutes 7 seconds
Yiddish Song of the Week Blog
3 minutes 38 seconds
Raising a Daughter in Yiddish
1 minute 49 seconds
Cemeteries and Gottesman's Pear Tree: On Visiting Eastern Europe
6 minutes 12 seconds
"An Alternative": Yiddish's Place in a Broader Jewish Culture
1 minute 50 seconds
Making a Living in Yiddish: Parenting Advice from My Parents
1 minute 43 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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About the Wexler Oral History Project
Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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