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.
A Language "Fine-Tuned" to Explain Human Behavior: Yiddish
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David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, talks about his sense of the innateness of Yiddish as a sensibility, even beyond language, and its simultaneous richness and deficiency of vocabulary.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Sloviter.
This excerpt is in English.
David Sloviter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.
