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.

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

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George Goldman, Jewish atheist born in Brooklyn, describes his experience getting lost in the Sierra Nevada when hiking with his father-in-law, and the beautiful surreal experience of having to spend a night alone in the snow.

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.