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.
Finland, A Miracle Among Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe
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Joseph Gideon Bolotowsky, president of Jewish community in Helsinki 1988-2007, explains how Finland is unique among all of the Jewish communities in central and eastern Europe in that it survived World War Two intact. Unlike most any of his peers in his generation, he grew up with an intergenerational extended Jewish family.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joseph Gideon Bolotowsky.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Joseph Gideon Bolotowsky was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1947.
