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.

Latvian Cheese In Uruguay: An Immigration Story

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Gregorio Brilovich describes how his family immigrated from Latvia to Uruguay, where his mother supported the family making cheese, then how his family was forced to go Chile during the Depression.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gregorio Brilovich.

This excerpt is in English.

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