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.
Learning Yiddish, First with My Grandfather
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Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, describes his path to learning Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zachary Baker.
This excerpt is in English.
Zachary Baker was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1950.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
