Norman, son of the Yiddish writer Leon Feinberg, remembers when Itzik Manger (the writer and close family friend) bought him a lollipop on a trip together to Coney Island.

 Hankus describes his excitement in the Yiddish Book Center's commitment to ethnographic projects. He reflects, too, on the personal importance the Yiddish Book Center has played for him as an "institutional home."

 Hankus Netsky laments how the pronunciation of Hebrew prayers was changed.

 Avia Moore, now a freelance theater artist based in Montreal, describes her experience as a Yiddish Book Center intern, back when interns sorted Yiddish books in a warehouse every afternoon after their classes.

 Arthur Klein describes the chain-smoking Rabbi who taught him his Haftorah.

 Chana Gonshor sings a song that she learned at the Medem Sanatorium in Poland as a young girl before the Second World War.

 Adrienne Cooper z"l talks about the new generation of Yiddish learners and the importance of the next generation for the survival of Yiddish language and culture. She stresses the role that the next generation will have to play in preserving Yiddish.

 Why learn Yiddish? Teachers, students, scholars, and performing artists discuss their reasons, the joys along the way, and the access they gained to a new world through the language itself.