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.

The Sights and Smells of Brooklyn

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Eli Kwartler, Jewish Community of Amherst co-president, describes the smells of the markets of the Brooklyn neighborhood of his childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Kwartler.

This excerpt is in English.

Eli Kwartler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929.