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 Old Country in 60s Philadelphia: Row Homes and Jewish Delis
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Elissa Samberg fondly remembers the closeness of the Philadelphia row homes in the 1960s and her neighborhood of Jewish immigrants just north of Philadelphia in the liminal space between the Old Country tradition and American assimilation. She describes this childhood experience through the lens of grocery shopping with her grandparents - her hand held tight by her grandfather, Elissa would visit Jewish delis every Saturday for nova lox on a bagel while her grandmother was getting her hair done.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elissa Samberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Elissa Samberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1956.
