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.

"Why Can't You Find a Nice Jewish Girl?": Meeting My Wife at the Dance Hall at U.C. Berkeley

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George Goldman, Jewish atheist born in Brooklyn, shares the story of how he and his wife met and began dating, and discusses his parents' reaction upon learning that he was dating a non-Jew.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Our Apartment in A Two-Family Home A Few Blocks from Ebbets Field

2 min 33 sec

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

1 min 52 sec

My Path to Atheism

2 min 28 sec

Driveaway Cars

1 min 42 sec

Wife's Matzoh From Scratch

1 min 34 sec

"Almost the Most Famous I've Been": Getting Lost in the Sierra Nevada

2 min 18 sec

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