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.

Peretz Weizman's Oral History

Peretz Weizman, rabbi, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 19, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

Peretz Weizman was born in Lodz, Poland in 1926. Peretz died in 2020.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Memories of the Town of Ger Before World War II

1 min 3 sec

Visits to the Rebbe: Memories of the Overcrowded Synagogue in Ger, Poland

3 min 6 sec

“The Apple in the Eye of Lodz”: The Altshtot Synagogue of Lodz

4 min 57 sec

A Shabbos Prayer from My Childhood

2 min 42 sec

“My Brothers Gave Me Their Years”: The Last Survivor of His Pre-War Family

3 min

Surviving and Escaping the Lodz Ghetto

3 min 3 sec

Singing Nigunim from Ger, Poland

2 min 21 sec

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