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 Synagogues Began to Empty, The Woods Began to Fill": Solomon Simon's Religious Education

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David Forman, grandson of Yiddish writer and educator Solomon Simon, considers his grandfather's overlapping secularism and teenage religious education in White Russia.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Forman.

This excerpt is in English.

David Forman was born in 1960.