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.

"Like Stepping Through a Door": Entering the Yiddish World

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Sean Sidky, student at the Steiner Summer Program, speaks to the continued relevance and endless possibilities of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sean Sidky.

This excerpt is in English.

Sean Sidky was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1989.