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.
Why Study Yiddish? It's All in the Story
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Itay Zutra, the I.L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow at the University of Manitoba, gives advice for potential students of Yiddish and explains that Yiddish has a definite spiritual value as a "good story."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Itay Zutra.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
Itay Zutra was born in Israel in 1974.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
