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.

When My Mother Became Our Shoykhet

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Vladimiro Rosenberg—surgeon from the Jewish colony of Rivera, Argentina—explains what led to his mother taking upon herself the task of animal slaughterer.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vladimiro Rosenberg.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.