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.

A Jew Breathes with Two Nostrils

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Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - uses a quote from Mendele Moykher Sforim to illustrate the importance of Yiddish and of multilingualism in Jewish studies.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Abraham (Avrom) Lichtenbaum was born in Argentina in 1943.

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This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

My Grandmother's Folk Tales and Card Games

1 min 35 sec

Yiddish Stories from a Childhood in Buenos Aires

1 min 10 sec

Reading Rozhansky's Musterverk Yiddish Textbooks in Buenos Aires High School

1 min 27 sec

Growing up with Argentinean Yiddish Literature

1 min 14 sec

July 18, 1994: Memories of the AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires

2 min 47 sec

Growing up in the "Once" Jewish Neighborhood in Buenos Aires

1 min 57 sec

Instead of Yelling about Yiddish, People Should Work with Yiddish

1 min 7 sec

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