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.

“When I Say To My Wife That Somebody Is Just a Shnorrer…She Knows What I’m Talking About!”

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David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, relates his favorite Yiddish word, and why he loves it.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Sloviter.

This excerpt is in English.

David Sloviter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.