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.

Ben-Zion Gold's Oral History

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, z"l, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, was interviewed by Jane Myers and Christa Whitney with Jayne Guberman on April 8, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Ben-Zion Gold was born in Radom, Poland in 1923. Ben-Zion died in 2016.

Video highlights from this oral history

Shoyn Nishto Keyn Nekhtn (Yesterday Is Gone) - Sung by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings "Az Ikh Volt Gehat Koyekh (If I Had the Strength)"

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings "Im Amarti"

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings His Father’s Peysekh (Passover) Nign

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings "Anim Z’miros"

It Sounds Better in the Aramaic: Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings "Ya Ribon"

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold and Jane Myers Sing "Ki V’Simcha"

When Do You Sing a Nign? Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Explains

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Remembers the Family’s “Concert” of Zmires on Friday Nights Growing Up

More information about this oral history

This narrator's full interview is not available.

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