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.

Selma Gordon's Oral History

Selma Gordon, retired school aide, was interviewed by Nina Dabek on July 12, 2013 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Selma Gordon was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1918.

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Video highlights from this oral history

After School at the Sholem Aleichem Folk Shul

1 min 46 sec

Orthodox Observance and a Reform Bat Mitzvah

2 min 55 sec

I Saw All of Them; I Wouldn't Miss Them:" Yiddish Theatre and Film

2 min 18 sec

"Radio! Now That Was the Beginning of Something Great!"

1 min 32 sec

The Death and Resurrection of Yiddish

1 min 43 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Portraits of Maternal Grandparents

Back of photo of Maternal Grandparents

Ripped Paper with Yiddish and English Writing

Handwritten note about Sedar Gift

Postcards 6

Postcards

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Postcards 4

Postcards 5

Portrait of Great Grandparents

Back of photo of Great Grandparents

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