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.

The First Time I Ate Pork

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Sherrie Poplack, avid collector of folk art of pigs, recalls the first time she ate pork - spare ribs - and explains what she did with the bones.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sherrie Poplack.

This excerpt is in English.