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.

It Was So Little, But At The Time It Was So Much: My Bat Mitzvah

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Phyllis Herda remembers being part of the first grade at her temple to have bat mitzvahs, and why her grandparents were unable to attend hers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Phyllis Herda.

This excerpt is in English.

Phyllis Herda was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1942.