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.

Hebrew or Baseball?

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Sherrie Poplack, an employee of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, recalls when she switched from Hebrew day school to public school, and the reasons behind the decline in her Hebrew education.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sherrie Poplack.

This excerpt is in English.