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 Parents' Pushcart on Orchard Street

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Eleanor Rothfeld, born in Lvov and raised in the United States, remembers her parents' pushcart on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eleanor Rothfeld.

This excerpt is in English.