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.

Conceptions of Yiddish

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Natalie Bornstein reflects on the ways people think of Yiddish and asserts that it is no one thing.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Natalie Bornstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Natalie Bornstein was born in Waterville, Maine in 1992.