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.
Fresh Gefilte Fish: Secular Observance of Jewish Traditions
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Childhood Yiddish speaker, Marilyn Cassotta, recalls how as a child Jewish religious traditions were incorporated into her secular household. She remembers her mother killing and cooking fresh Gefilte Fish all day on Fridays so she would not have to cook on Saturdays.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marilyn Cassotta.
This excerpt is in English.
Marilyn Cassotta was born in Bronx, New York in 1933.
