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 Little Shul in Philadelphia
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David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, describes the "Little Shul" in South Philadelphia where he attended services and was Bar Mitzvahed as a boy. He speaks about the origins of the synagogue as a meeting place for landsman and recounts the experience of observing Yom Kippur there.
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.
