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.

Are We Still Bundists?

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David and Ben Burstin – sons of Bundist Sender Burstin – reflect on their political stances and how they've changed over time. They grew up in a Bundist household but are not strict Bundists today. Both explain their involvement with the Australian Labour Party and their thoughts on the place of Bundism in the world today.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Burstin and Ben Burstin.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

David Burstin was born in 1937.

Ben Burstin was born in 1931.