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.

They Attacked My Grandfather on Erev Yom Kippur

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Ruth Ravina – Holocaust Survivor – talks about the attack her grandfather suffered as he returned from temple the night before Yom Kippur. She talks about her grandmother's praying and her own reaction.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Ravina.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.