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.
Personal Meaning of Yiddish today
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Florence Schumacher explains the role Yiddish plays in her life today, and what she sees for the future of the language after what a "close call" before the recent Yiddish renaissance.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Florence Schumacher.
This excerpt is in English.