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.
Grandparents As Markers Of Ethnic Identity
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David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, talks about how ethnic identity is transmitted to individuals, citing his own experience with psychology. He discusses the ways in which his own identity was instilled in him by his family and the holidays they observed, the food they ate, and the way they spoke.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Berg.
This excerpt is in English.
David Berg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.
