Learning a language is a big investment. There are many languages to choose from, too, even just among Jewish languages. So why learn Yiddish? Teachers, students, scholars, and performing artists discuss their reasons, the joys along the way, and the access they gained to a new world through the language itself.

• Hear more about the Wexler Oral History Project's series of interviews with academics involved with Yiddish.
• Learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project.
• Find out about the Yiddish Book Center's educational opportunities.
• See A shmek yidish, language learning videos from a Yiddish Book Center summer course.
• View more clips from oral history interviews.
• To view the full interviews, go to archive.org/details/ybcvideos.