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.

Wife's Matzoh From Scratch

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George Goldman, Jewish atheist born in Brooklyn, discusses his and his wife's decision to raise their children with both Christian and Jewish holidays, and describes his wife's matzoh, which she has been making from scratch for over 50 years.

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.

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