The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Disdain for the American Bagel

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Jack Kugelmass, Jewish Canadian anthropologist and director of Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, on New York City bagels, and the appearance of bacon in "Jewish-style" delis in the United States.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jack Kugelmass.

This excerpt is in English.

Jack Kugelmass was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1950.