Tag #152771 - Interview #101503 (Vladimir Khalfin)

My mother Golda was born in 1902. I might have forgotten other children, if any. The boys studied at cheder. My mother and her sisters were taught at home. A melamed from cheder taught them Hebrew, Torah and Talmud. My mother could read and write in Yiddish and Hebrew. She had a book of prayers in Hebrew that she received from her father at bat mitzvah  – 12 years old. The sons of the family had bar mitzvah conducted at the age of 13.