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.

"Yiddish Was the Language of the Galut"

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Boris Rubinstein, who grew up in Mexico, avoided learning Yiddish as a kid because he thought it was the "language of exile".

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Boris Rubinstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Boris Rubinstein was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1945.