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.

"Yiddish is Contagious": Perspective From a 101-Year-Old Native Yiddish Speaker

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Harriet (Hasia) Segal, z"l, native Yiddish speaker and co-host of Dos Yidishe Kol Yiddish radio show, shares observations about the current state of Yiddish and Yiddishkayt.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harriet (Hasia) Segal.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Harriet (Hasia) Segal was born in 1913. Harriet (Hasia) died in 2017.