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.

"That Was Us!" Celebrating Passover, Hanukkah, and Thanksgiving in America

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David Cherson, Boston area native and board member of the Tremont Street Shul, describes spending holidays with his family.

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.