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.

Jewish Students' Changing Relationship to Yiddish

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Eugene Orenstein, Emeritus Professor of Yiddish and Modern Jewish History at McGill University in Montreal, discusses the change in his students' knowledge of Yiddish since the 1970s.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eugene Orenstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Eugene Orenstein was born in Bronx, New York in 1945.