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.

Itay Zutra's Oral History

Itay Zutra, the I. L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow at the University of Manitoba, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 18, 2012 at AJS 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

This interview was conducted in English.

Itay Zutra was born in Israel in 1974.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"At Least They Made Fun of It!": Generational Differences in Attitudes Toward Yiddish in Israel

2 min 39 sec

Finding Connections between Hebrew and Yiddish

1 min 38 sec

"They're Cool and They're Studying Yiddish!": Approaching Normalization of Yiddish Studies in America

1 min 31 sec

Why Study Yiddish? It's All in the Story

1 min 55 sec

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