Tag #151013 - Interview #78412 (Frieda Portnaya)

My mother went to a synagogue that was not far from where we lived. We kids often went with her or just ran there ourselves. We were very curious, but this curiosity couldn’t be taken for any interest in religion. My mother often told me what her father had taught her: the history of the Jewish people and the ancient Torah, but frankly speaking, I wasn’t interested that much in these subjects. My mother talked to me in Yiddish. I understood what she was saying but I couldn’t answer her in the same language.