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.
Cultural Transmission Through Food and Cooking
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Hanni Dorn, granddaughter of Mark Selchen, editor of Yiddish newspaper in Winnipeg, reminisces about the foods that she grew up with, and discusses the concept of food and cooking as vehicles for cultural transmission.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hanni Dorn.
This excerpt is in English.
Hanni Dorn was born in New York, New York in 1961.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
