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.

Memories of Zionism in the Intellectual Landscape of Interwar Vilna

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William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good, Holocaust survivor and speaker of ten languages, remembers his involvement in the Tarbut zionist movement as a child in the interwar period in the shtetl of Nementchin and then in Vilna.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.