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.

Eating a Bagel Mit Lox on Yom Kippur

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Max Levine, son of Yiddish speaking Holocaust survivors from Poland, describes finding his father eating a bagel one Yom Kippur morning and listening to his explanation of why he wouldn't fast on Yom Kippur.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Max Levine.

This excerpt is in English.