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.

Jewish Holidays With My Bobes in Finland

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Joseph Gideon Bolotowsky, president of Jewish community in Helsinki 1988-2007, remembers celebrating Rosh Hashanah and Passover with his grandmothers as a child in Finland.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Finland, A Miracle Among Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe

4 min 17 sec

Cantonists: How Many Jews Arrived in Finland

3 min 10 sec

The Helsinki Jewish School: Over 100 Years of History

3 min 16 sec

Jewish History In Finland

3 min 16 sec

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