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.

"Anything She Made was Good': My Mother's Cooking from Scratch

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Arlene Cohen Stein, Writer, native of Utica, New York and retired music teacher, describes the various Jewish dishes that her mother prepared from scratch.

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.