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.
Yiddish: A Warm, Loving Language Full of Jewishness and Kindness
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Zeva Greendale Roschko, educator and activist, cites Einstein in offering some insight as to why Yiddish is important and why it's necessary to actively keep Yiddish alive. She cites the language as being full of "yidishkayt" (Judaism/Jewishness) and "mentshlekhkeyt" (kindness, decency).
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zeva Greendale Roschko.
This excerpt is in English.
Zeva Greendale Roschko was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. Zeva died in 2020.
