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 Belongs to the Whole World:" The Work of the Yiddish Book Center

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Agnieszka Ilwicka, Yiddish Book Center fellow, discusses the work being done at the Yiddish Book Center and how Yiddish is cultural heritage of the entire world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Agnieszka Ilwicka.

This excerpt is in English.

Agnieszka Ilwicka was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1986.