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.

"How Do We Get to Our Stories If We Don't Know Yiddish?": The Importance of Yiddish Today

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Jack and Bunny Hoffinger discuss the meaning that Yiddish has for them today and the importance of maintaining a relationship with it in order to honor the memories of Eastern European Jews.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bunny Hoffinger and Jack Hoffinger.

This excerpt is in English.

Bunny Hoffinger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. Bunny died in 2018.

Jack Hoffinger was born in Bronx, New York in 1926. Jack died in 2021.