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.
Sharing Meals with the Needy in Interwar Užgorod
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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, recalls his father's practice of inviting the poor members of their community in Užgorod into their home for meals, and how his father explained the tradition to Rivka, Moshe's younger sister.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
