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.

Cholent: Memories of My Mother's Traditional Ashkenazi Cooking

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Walter Sztajnberg, Brazilian-born Yidish-Vokh 2013 participant, describes his mother's traditional Ashkenazi cooking, remembering her cholent (a slow-cooked stew prepared for the Sabbath) with special fondness.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Walter Sztajnberg.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Walter Sztajnberg was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1943.

Other video highlights from this oral history

A Chance Reunion of a Nephew and Uncle After the Holocaust

2 min 16 sec

We'll Never Forget My Father's Singing in Honor of Those Lost in the Holocaust Every Yom Kippur

1 min 32 sec

A Bit About Jewish Brazil

1 min 50 sec

Dancing the Hora—and the Samba, too

1 min 1 sec

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