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.
Making Cholent in Dubienka, Poland
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Celia Ores, Yiddish speaker born in Poland and survivor of the Gulag, describes how some members of Dubienka's Jewish community would make cholent using the oven at a soda fountain.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Celia Ores.
This excerpt is in English.
Celia Ores was born in Dubienka, Poland in 1928.