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.

Growing Up In Chelsea, MA, A Jewish Immigrant Community

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Phyllis Herda recalls the Jewish community of her childhood in Chelsea, MA.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Phyllis Herda.

This excerpt is in English.

Phyllis Herda was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1942.