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 in Israel

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Frances Schlitt discusses the lack of Yiddish education and newspapers in Israel and the reasons for this.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Frances Morrill Schlitt.

This excerpt is in English.

Frances Morrill Schlitt was born in Auburn, Maine in 1935. Frances Morrill died in 2020.

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