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.

"The Heartstrings Attached": Deepening My Understanding of Yiddish

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Sophia Wise relates her realization of the "heartstrings attached" to the Yiddish language for its surviving community of speakers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sophia Wise.

This excerpt is in English.

Sophia Wise was born in Orlando, Florida in 1992.