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.

Living Language

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Vardit Lightstone explains how Yiddish, as a living language, is open to interpretation by today's speakers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vardit Lightstone.

This excerpt is in English.

Vardit Lightstone was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988.