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.
While the Family Listened to Eddie Cantor…: One Night Alone in the Butcher Shop
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Retired forensic engineer David Schorr, whose father was a kosher butcher, reminisces about those rare Sunday afternoons when he'd be home alone and could make himself a steak any way he liked.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Schorr.
This excerpt is in English.
David Schorr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1931.