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.

I Don't Want it to Feel Like Just Bagels and Cream Cheese

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David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, describes the Jewish home he grew up in and how it changed as he began his education at a Jewish day school.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Schlitt.

This excerpt is in English.

David Schlitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1981.