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.

"You can't live on chicken soup." On the Importance of Jewish Community

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Frances Morrill Schlitt considers the challenges of observing Jewish ritual isolated from a practicing community and concludes that religious aptitude is more often than not dependent on the surrounding community.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Frances Morrill Schlitt.

This excerpt is in English.

Frances Morrill Schlitt was born in Auburn, Maine in 1935. Frances Morrill died in 2020.