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.
I Proposed After Half An Hour: Meeting and Marrying My Wife
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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, tells the story of how he met his future wife Rivka, and proposed after only a half hour. He then shares memories of the wedding, including the appearance of a surprise guest, the chief rabbi of Israel, who ended up marrying them.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
