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.

My Father Had to Consult Him for Everything: The Rebbe of Radom

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Moshe Fiszman, z"l, Holocaust survivor, grew up in a Hasidic home and describes his rebbe, who was a descendant of the Belzer rebbe. Moshe then tells a story of the rebbe's advice for Moshe's older brother regarding university.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Fiszman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Moshe Fiszman was born in Radom, Poland in 1921. Moshe died in 2019.