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.
Parade, Automat, and A Movie: Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan with Izzy and Mama
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Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, remembers childhood Thanksgivings, on which he, his grandmother, and his cognitively disabled cousin Izzy would have a special day out together.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Howard Nenner.
This excerpt is in English.
Howard Nenner was born in Bronx, New York in 1935.