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.

From Heder to Gymnasium: My Jewish Education in Vilna in the Interwar Period

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Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, talks about the schools he attended before the outbreak of World War II—including heder, a Hebrew school, and gymnasiums—and what he learned there.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Baruch Shoob.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.