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.

Secular Literature, Sholem Aleichem and Peretz

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Moshe Fiszman—z"l, Holocaust survivor from Radom, Poland—talks about reading secular literature while he was growing up and recites some Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz from memory.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

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

1 min 40 sec

The Postman Wrote For Us On Shabbes

2 min 36 sec

"Ale Mentshn Zaynen Brider (All People Are Brothers)": Theater in the Radom Ghetto

1 min 43 sec

Reciting Itzik Manger From Memory

5 min 32 sec

Radom And The Leather Industry

1 min 22 sec

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