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.

We Were Poor, But I Was the Best Dressed

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Arlene Cohen Stein—writer, native of Utica, New York and retired music teacher—discusses the clothing that she wore as a child and describes her mother starching everything.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Arlene Cohen Stein.

This excerpt is in English.

Arlene Cohen Stein was born in Utica, New York in 1935.