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 Manifestation of Belonging

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David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, talks about the deep emotional resonance of Yiddish language and culture, and its ability to connect a person to a heritage that sometimes seems, to him, out of reach.

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.

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3 min 18 sec

Jewish Missions to Cuba

3 min 46 sec

A Language "Fine-Tuned" to Explain Human Behavior: Yiddish

4 min 4 sec

“When I Say To My Wife That Somebody Is Just a Shnorrer…She Knows What I’m Talking About!”

1 min 19 sec

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