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.
"Nous parlons Français, mir redn yidish": Five Languages of Business in My Father's Toronto Store
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, describes the multilingual nature of business in her father's paint and wallpaper store in mid-century downtown Toronto.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
This excerpt is in English.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1942.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
