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.

Speaking Yiddish in the White House

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David Epstein, a Yidish-Vokh participant, describes speaking Yiddish at the White House as an only-in-America moment.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Epstein.

This excerpt is in English.

David Epstein was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1935.