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.
The Secret of Food that Tastes Like Home
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Prof. Yechiel Szeintuch, a scholar of Yiddish literature, describes trying to find food that tasted the same as when he was growing up, and hamitsa, a soup of his youth.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yechiel Szeintuch.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Yechiel Szeintuch was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.