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.

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From tsinglekh to calves brains: Long-time Book Center volunteer Fran Saed z"l describes the array of traditional Jewish foods she grew up with.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fran Saed.

This excerpt is in English.

Fran Saed was born in New York, New York in 1929. Fran died in 2013.

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