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.
He was Ancient to Me: Describing My Zeyde, Solomon Simon
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David Forman, grandson of Yiddish writer and educator Solomon Simon, remembers how his grandfather looked from his little-boy-standpoint.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Forman.
This excerpt is in English.
David Forman was born in 1960.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.