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 Yiddish Speaking World Today

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Cecile Kuznitz describes a whirlwind day when she went to three different events where she spoke only Yiddish, proving that Yiddish is not dead.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Cecile Kuznitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Cecile Kuznitz was born in New York, New York in 1967.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Visiting Vilna

2 min 40 sec

"Becoming a part of history": working at YIVO in the 1990s

1 min 29 sec

Advice to New Yiddish Scholars: Commitment

58 sec

Distance from History

1 min 19 sec

Identity Politics in Jewish Studies

2 min 1 sec

Three Sets of Dishes

43 sec

Vilna in 1993

2 min 40 sec

The Flourishing of Yiddish Culture

1 min 39 sec

Increasing importance of Yiddish in the Academy

1 min 12 sec