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.

Our Sukkah in the Bronx (The Sukkah Story)

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Ingrid remembers her uncle's annual sukkah and the story that came along with it. Without fail, her uncle would chase wind down the Bronx streets in order to catch his sukkah and put it back together.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ingrid.

This excerpt is in English.

Ingrid was born in Echwege, Germany in 1929.