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.

The Postman Wrote For Us On Shabbes

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Moshe Fiszman, z"l, Holocaust survivor, remembers what Shabbos was like when we was a kid, explaining how Polish postman writing letters for the Hasidic residents of Radom, Poland.

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.