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.

Memories of A Hasidic Synagogue in Vilna

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Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, remembers the Hasidic shul he attended in Vilna growing up.

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

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

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

6 min 34 sec

Antisemitism in the Forest: My Experience as a Jewish Partisan Outside of Vilna

4 min 7 sec

I Knew Hirsh Glick: Memories of A Distant Relative, Writer, and Resistance Fighter in Vilna

3 min 7 sec

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