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.

My Grandfather Considered This Very Goyish: The Orthodox and Reform Synagogues of My Youth

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George Goldman, Jewish atheist born in Brooklyn, describes the Orthodox synagogue that his family attended before his bar mitzvah, and the Reform one that they switched to during his bar mitzvah.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with George Goldman.

This excerpt is in English.

George Goldman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. George died in 2018.