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.

Paying a Psychotherapist to Speak Yiddish With Me

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Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, recounts how he used to meet regularly with a psychotherapist who also happened to be a Yiddishist, just to have someone to speak Yiddish with.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Leonard Nimoy.

This excerpt is in English.

Leonard Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1931. Leonard died in 2015.

This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.