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.
What Was Cafe Scheherazade?
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John (Yankl) Zeleznikow, scholar of information systems, describes the famed Cafe Scheherezade Jewish restaurant in Melbourne, which his parents co-owned. He describes the food that was serves, the generations of people who visited and how the cafe was a part of the community, not just a restaurant.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with John (Yankl) Zeleznikow.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
