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.

Vardit Lightstone's Oral History

Vardit Lightstone, 2010 student of the Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, was interviewed by Nora Feinstein on June 22, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Vardit Lightstone was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Living Language

1 min 1 sec

On Internship

1 min 3 sec

On Yiddish

1 min 25 sec

Family Custom, Throwing Bread on Shabbat

1 min 23 sec

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