Bernice Kazis

Bernice Gondelman Goldstein Kazis reflects on her family and Jewish upbringing in Boston, her first marriage and sudden widowhood, her subsequent marriage to Rabbi Israel Kazis, and a lifetime of involvement with Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Jewish communal life, social service, volunteerism, and professional work in the Greater Boston Jewish community.

Alexandra Kiosse and Georgia Westbrook interviewed Bernice Kazis on July 5, 2016, in Auburndale, Massachusetts, as part of the Soviet Jewry Oral History Project. Kazis reflects upon her Jewish identity, the role of women in Judaism, her ties to Israel, her experiences in the Soviet Jewry Movement, and her work with Jewish Family Service in resettling Jewish immigrants from Russia.