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.
She Believed in God Because of Destiny: On My Mother's Religious Practice and My Bar Mitzvah
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Micha Brym, engineer and Yiddish enthusiast who was born in Russia and grew up in France, describes the complexities of his religious life as a child growing up in France, with a mother whose belief was based in her survival.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Micha Brym.
This excerpt is in English.
Micha Brym was born in 1942.