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.
Religious Compromises
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Sara Kruzansky recounts her religious home and how her father was pained by the fact that he had to work on the Sabbath.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sara Kruzansky.
This excerpt is in English.
Sara Kruzansky was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1921. Sara died in 2013.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
