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.
"What Did Your Father Have for Dessert on Yom Kippur?": Secular Life in Montreal
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Sylvia Lustgarten and Annette Zakuta, daughters of Yiddish Writer Y. Y. Segal, recall their secular upbringing and their father's mischievous attitude towards more religious neighbors.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Lustgarten and Annette Zakuta.
This excerpt is in English.
Sylvia Lustgarten was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1926.
Annette Zakuta was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1929.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
