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.
My Mother's Experience Escaping from 1919 Pogrom
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David Cherson, Boston area native and board member of the Tremont Street Shul, describes his mother's experience as a child escaping from a pogrom in Russia.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Cherson.
This excerpt is in English.
David Cherson was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1948.
