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.
Simkhes Toyre (Simchat Torah) in South Philly
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David Berg, a South Philadelphia native, talks about observing Simchas Torah at the "Little Shul" in South Philadelphia where he attended services and was Bar Mitzvahed as a boy.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Berg.
This excerpt is in English.
David Berg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.