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.
Matzo Balls, Cigars & Underage Driving: Passover Memories
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Stuart Jay Robinson, rabbi and lawyer, shares fond memories of the Passover celebrations of his youth, which featured the unusual traditions of puffing on his grandfather's cigar, having a shot of Slivovitz before the seder, and going out for drives on grandfather's lap during Chol haMoed (the intermediate days of Passover following the first two seders).
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Stuart Jay Robinson.
This excerpt is in English.
Stuart Jay Robinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948.
