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.
Speaking Yiddish Is Like Being Part of an Extinct Species
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Gabriel Weinreich - professor emeritus of physics, Episcopal priest, and son of Yiddishist Max Weinreich - explains why having Yiddish words for "internet" or "round-trip ticket" are like being a member of an extinct species.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gabriel Weinreich.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gabriel Weinreich was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1928.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.