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.

Leaving Egypt

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Elaine Katz describes her mother's emigration from Egypt and her relatives fear that she would be wearing "immigrant" clothes upon arrival. The relatives, however, were quite surprised by what Elaine's mother was actually wearing.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elaine Katz.

This excerpt is in English.

Elaine Katz was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1926. Elaine died in 2015.