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.

Becoming a Mohel

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Henry Simkin describes how he learned the brit milah ceremony essentially on-the-fly in order to perform a brit milah for a friend.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Henry Simkin.

This excerpt is in English.

Henry Simkin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1955.