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.

David Cherson's Oral History

David Cherson, Boston area native and board member of the Tremont Street Shul, was interviewed by Saul Hankin on May 27, 2014 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

David Cherson was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1948.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Mother's Experience Escaping from 1919 Pogrom

4 min

Summers in Old Orchard Beach, Maine

2 min 39 sec

"That Was Us!" Celebrating Passover, Hanukkah, and Thanksgiving in America

3 min 32 sec

Working at the Tremont Street Shul

2 min 29 sec

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