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.

George Goldman's Oral History

George Goldman, z"l, Jewish atheist born in Brooklyn, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on September 29, 2015 in Berkeley, California.

This interview was conducted in English.

George Goldman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. George died in 2018.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Grandfather Considered This Very Goyish: The Orthodox and Reform Synagogues of My Youth

1 min 52 sec

My Path to Atheism

2 min 28 sec

"Why Can't You Find a Nice Jewish Girl?": Meeting My Wife at the Dance Hall at U.C. Berkeley

2 min 32 sec

Driveaway Cars

1 min 42 sec

Wife's Matzoh From Scratch

1 min 34 sec

"Almost the Most Famous I've Been": Getting Lost in the Sierra Nevada

2 min 18 sec

Our Apartment in A Two-Family Home A Few Blocks from Ebbets Field

2 min 33 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

George Goldman Photograph of his Father's Father (paternal grandfather)

George Goldman Photograph of George Goldman as a child

George Goldman Photograph of his sister, age 9, and himself, age 1

George Goldman Photograph - posed photographer's portrait

George Goldman Mother Photograph

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