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.
Going to Supermarkets After Emigrating from the USSR
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Yankl Garelik - Belarus-born printer now residing in Denver, Colorado - describes the experience of going shopping as a recent immigrant from the Soviet Union and being overwhelmed by the variety of items.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yankl Garelik.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Yankl Garelik was born in Belarus, USSR in 1948.
