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 Grandmother's Heavy Russian Borscht

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Jory Miller, grandson of Yiddish actress Anna Beck, describes his grandmother's heavy Russian borscht, the recipe of which has been passed down to his sister and other family members, but will always bring to mind his grandmother.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jory Miller.

This excerpt is in English.