Tag #130305 - Interview #78415 (Max Wolf)

We had a small home library with ordinary books. Some of them were partly in Yiddish and partly in German, and my parents would read the part they understood better. They also read the press: ‘Dimineata’ [‘The Morning,’ a Romanian-language daily newspaper, published intermittently in Bucharest from 1904 to 1938] and ‘Adevarul’ [‘The Truth,’ a Romanian-language journal of democratic opinions. It was first published in Iasi as a weekly, from 1871 to 1872, then intermittently in Bucharest as a daily, from 1888 to 1951.]. They encouraged me to read too. I gradually got the hang of it and ended up reading a lot. There was a public library in our town, ‘Nordau and Dererea,’ but my parents didn’t frequent it because they were far too busy with their everyday work.