In December, I had the privilege of interviewing my mother’s cousin, Sherrie Poplack, for the Wexler Oral History Project. I had joined Jordan Kutzik and Christa Whitney on a trip to the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, to pick up Yiddish audio books and to conduct oral history interviews with members of the Jewish community. I went to college in Montreal, and couldn’t wait to return – to eat bagels, get a taste of winter weather, and interview Sherrie....