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.

It's More Intimate: The Different Uses of Yiddish and Hebrew

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Małgorzata Maciejewska, graduate student in Jewish Studies at University of Wrocław, observes the publicness of Hebrew and the intimacy of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Małgorzata Maciejewska.

This excerpt is in English.

Małgorzata Maciejewska was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1989.