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.

"The Kids are stupid"

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Jonathan Morse talks about a story his mother told him about playing with the other children when she was growing up and her reaction to their inability to speak Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jonathan Morse.

This excerpt is in English.

Jonathan Morse was born in New York, New York in 1955.

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