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.
How Yiddish Dictates Jewish Identity for the Family of Yiddish Writer, Solomon Simon
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Daniel Forman, grandson of Yiddish writer Solomon Simon, considers the role of Yiddish in his Jewish identity, and the Jewish identity and associations of his family as a whole.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Daniel Forman.
This excerpt is in English.
Daniel Forman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1956.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.