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 Good Jew? Reflections on Jewish Sentimentalism and Ethics

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Samuel Bak, a prominent Jewish artist from Vilna, talks about his view of ethics and religion informed by his Vilna childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Samuel (Shmuel) Bak.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Samuel (Shmuel) Bak was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1933.