Tag #125474 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

At the basis of her upbringing methods laid the belief that every Jewish girl shouldn’t only be well educated but that she should also be able to make and have an idea about lots of other things so that she would be capable of meeting the various needs of her family and manage the household. In that respect my father bought me a piano in 1936 and I had to learn to play it, not only read novels. I started taking private lessons but I was good for nothing. Now, I’m really sorry that I had the opportunity and I didn’t take advantage of it. At that time I was doing a lot of things: novels, social work, etc. Why didn’t I take advantage of that opportunity that other people didn’t have?